Abnormally Normal
In werecreatures, she says, "ultimately, we find ambiguities and mysteries."
Werefiction provides readers with much-needed escapism, says Leila Taylor, co-owner of Creatures 'n Crooks Bookshoppe in Richmond, Va.: "People are wanting to read something that doesn't make them depressed and that has a little excitement in it."
And, she adds, "When it comes to the whole werewolves, werecats, werepanthers thing, people are getting tired of the vampire scene."
A Long, Hairy History
The idea of shape-shifting and man-beast combos dates at least as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans, whose myths abounded with humans morphing into animals, then back again. The most famous example is the werewol