Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.

Johannes Dillinger, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Matteo Duni, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy
Richard L. Gordon, University of Erfurt, Germany
Merili Metsvahi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Maja Pasari?, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia
Aleks Pluskowski, University of Reading, UK
Rolf Schulte, University of Kiel, Germany
Michèle Simonsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christa Agnes Tuczay, University of Vienna, Austria
Rita Voltmer, University of Trier, Germany

1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; Willem de Blécourt
2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World; Richard Gordon
3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; Christa Agnes Tuczay
4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Aleksander Pluskowski
Interlude: Wolf-Riding
5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy; Matteo Duni
6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature; Johannes Dillinger
7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe; Rita Voltmer
8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Rolf Schulte
Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves
9. Estonian Werewolf History; Merili Metsvahi
10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Michèle Simonsen
11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions; Maja Pasaric