The Library of Stephen J. Farber

8vo. Original mustard yellow cloth lettered in red, top edge stained red; dust jacket (spot of wear near top of spine).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the Farrar & Rinehart seal present on the copyright page. This work served as the basis for the 1961 horror film The Curse of the Werewolf, with a screenplay by Anthony Hinds and direction by Terence Fisher, starring Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans, and Yvonne Romain. Notably, the film adaptation remains the only werewolf picture produced by Hammer Film Productions, the studio otherwise famed for its long-running cycles of Dracula and Frankenstein films. The dust jacket features a striking montage of macabre imagery set against a Parisian backdrop.

The Werewolf of Paris is a "classic novel that takes its inspiration from a reported case of necrophilia and cannibalism at the time of the Paris Commune...A sarcastic and bitterly misanthropic allegory, by far the most effective of all the novels in which the werewolf becomes a symbol of divided and conflict-ridden human nature" (Barron).

EXCEEDINGLY RARE: According to online records, no copies of the true first edition have appeared at auction. Barron, Anatomy of Horror 4-51; Bleiler, Supernatural 611. A VERY FINE COPY.