The Werewolf of Paris
Novel by Guy EndoreWikipedia
12
MENTIONS
6
EPISODES
6
PODCASTS
Search complete. 12 mentions across 6 episodes found for "The Werewolf of Paris".
Oct 21, 2026
TaraHOST
And again, this is pretty important.
TaraHOST
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endor was a really big and influential title.
TaraHOST
That was 1933.
TaraHOST
That's a good contender for the most famous and influential early werewolf book, I think.
TaraHOST
Yeah.
TaraHOST
There's totally the possibility that I missed stuff.
TaraHOST
But anyway, I just mentioned 1933 for The Werewolf of Paris.
TaraHOST
1933 is also the publication year of the book that I keep coming back to and making you read, Peter.
Shayn JonesHOST
[laughs] Uh, the werewolf continues to serve as an allegory for culture anxieties into the 20th century.
Shayn JonesHOST
Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris, which was written in 1933, often, or often called the Dracula of werewolf fiction, uses lycanthropy as a metaphor for uncontrollable urges and moral decay, particularly in the context of war and violence.
Shayn JonesHOST
Uh, the protagonist, Bernard Calliot, is tortured by his dual nature.
Shayn JonesHOST
"I am a man, and yet I am a beast.
speaker_1HOST
We have to look at the novel that laid the definitive groundwork for the monster in modern print.
speaker_0HOST
Which means we need to jump back to 1933, right? To a novel by Guy Endor called The Werewolf of Paris.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
1933.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
speaker_0HOST
Lay it on me.
speaker_1HOST
The Werewolf of Paris is the blueprint because it introduces a profound internal tragedy that just hadn't been fully explored before.
speaker_0HOST
Internal tragedy?
LoriHOST
And the, the story is loosely based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel of The Werewolf.
LoriHOST
Oh, The Werewolf of Paris.
LoriHOST
Um, so that, that's, that's the basic stuff.
LoriHOST
Uh, Terence Fisher is a British director best known for all of his Hammer films.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
And when you get to 19th century Gothic literature, which we've talked about already, the Victorian authors popularized the werewolf in fiction.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
So there was a novel called The Werewolf of Paris.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
And then there was another one, a German one, called The Werewolf, which is spelled funky because it's German.
Mighty KCORRESPONDENT
Werewolf?
Alan KudanHOST
Instead, they transform just once on their 13th birthday.
Abby BrinkerHOST
But later, Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris from 1933 really sort of cemented this idea that the werewolf is like a big, um-
Alan KudanHOST
Parisian
Abby BrinkerHOST
... well, sure, but also like a, a modern horror staple.