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...Werewolf of London (Universal). Cinemaddicts who reacted properly to Mark of the Vampire (TIME, May 6) are likely to be even more perturbed by this ugly blossom from the spring's crop of horror pictures. Werewolves are not as eerie as vampires but they are faster, more ferocious and make uglier noises. A sprig of bat-thorn, as seasoned cinemaddicts are well aware, will keep a vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight...
BABOUK?Guy Endore?Vanguard ($2). Story of an African slave in Haiti, by the author of The Werewolf of Paris in different mood...
...WEREWOLF OF PARIS-Guy Endore -Farrar & Rinehart...
Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
...farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep. Locking Bertrand in his room only made him worse. Finally he escaped; Aymar tracked him into Paris by a trail of murders. During the siege of the city (this was in 1870) and the nightmare of the Commune, Werewolf Bertrand fed at will. But by the time Aymar found him Bertrand had fallen in love and was making desperate efforts to cure himself. But he was too far gone; one night he was caught redhanded, red-mouthed. Aymar, by now thoroughly convinced that the Medieval Church was right, would...