A History Of Monsters: The Werewolf

At the top of our list with a (silver) bullet, it s those famously hirsute nighttime hunters werewolves There s a reason it s often teens or young adults who fall victim to the bite of a scary creature on a moonlit night: Dangerous to themselves as well as others, lycanthropes (which have existed since the ancient Greek myths and possibly earlier) represent the changing body and the hotblooded loss of our dignity, nay, our humanity, to forces (read: hormones) beyond our control. Sounds a lot like pubert