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Airdate: 10/26/2017

Time to wolf down the last of The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore – come along for the feast!

Special thanks to our reader, Erwann G. Marshall!

Episode includes the Main Title music from The Curse of the Werewolf, by Benjamin Frankel.

Next week: All Hallows by Walter de la Mare. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Comments

Moonflight Dancer

Endore's misogyny is transparent. It's always women beckoning Bertrand to release his inner beast, to succumb to carnal desire. However, he's not depicting men, or masculinity as inherently good either. The men in this story are debased, violent, hypocritical, impotent, barbaric, avaricious and useless. The nobles, the judges, the priest, the bishop, Aymar himself, they all succumb to corruption and degredation in one way or another, just as the revolving door of government inevitably does. Chris' comment about "no strong female characters", is to me very telling. When we say "strong female characters", I assume we mean "female characters with agency, who stand on their own." While Sophie and Josephine aren't positive role models, and in the context of the story they are defined by their relationship to the male characters, they also clearly have agency. Sophie demonstrates manipulation over the mob. Josephine disregards everything so that her son can receive an education and be free. These are not the actions of weak-willed individuals who exist solely to be exploited, but members of a society whose influence is just as powerful in the molding of young men and the wars that they fight and the savagery they inflict, as anyone else.

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