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Crazy Ivan’s TIMELINE OF WEREWOLF AND THERIANTHROPE FICTION
Last updated: 06 JUL 2005
Conventions: - Bold indicates a particularly significant event in the origins of the werewolf, as well as names of werewolf-related organizations - Sources are listed in [Brackets]. Episode titles are in "Quotations". W * Please note that WNU articles are written with the intent of rectifying various works of fiction into a coherent timeline. As such information is often distorted somewhat from the source materials, I have opted to list both versions when conflicts exist. My intent is for this timeline to be WNU-Friendly, but not WNU-Centric. For more information on the Wold Newton Universe please visit Win Eckert's site, AN EXPANSION OF PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE.
S - Entries from Dennis Power's SECRET HISTORY OF THE WNU primarily concern interpretations of Mr. Hyde and various superheroes modified to fit the WNU.
M - Entries from Chuck Loridan's MONSTAAH timelines and articles. Much of this is adapted from Win Eckert and Dennis Power, placed in a context of recording all monster activity in the WNU.
F - Entries from Jean-Marc Lofficier's FRENCH WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE timeline and articles, based on a wealth of French literature including Lofficier's own impressive body of works. D - Entries based on White Wolf's WORLD OF DARKNESS materials. At present, I do not distinguish between the old and new Wolrd of Darkness games, or between the games and the fiction inspired by them.
C - Entries based on Cthulhu Mythos sources (Lovecraft, Howard, Derlith, etc.). Please note that not all Mythos scholars accept every Lovecraft pastiche tale; some materials noted as such may not be considered canon, especially when derived from ultimately non-mythos origins, such as Marvel or DC Comics. Likewise, not every Mythos reference fits into the schema of the WNU, as interpreted by various creative mythographers. * Also, a plethora of references may be taken from comicbooks and role-playing games, but I have chosen to use only those which I feel significant to the history of shapeshifters. For timelines that deal specifically with any given source of fiction, I highly recommend Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were.
350,000,000 BCE C - A cataclysm raises numerous new land masses, such as Ponape and R'lyeh. The disaster also destroys several marine Elder Thing cities. Cthulhu and his kin arrive from the star Xoth, and settle on the newly-risen landmasses. The Elder Things war with Cthulhu, but they eventually make peace. Cthulhu is permitted to keep his current surface territories, and the Elder Things keep the rest of the planet. [AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, Lovecraft (as researched for the "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos" by Appel, expanded by James "JEB" Bowman)] 1,7000,000 BCE C - Ithaqua appears in the northernmost regions of Earth, resulting in the decline of the voormis. [AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, Lovecraft (as researched for the "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos" by Appel, expanded by James "JEB" Bowman)] 35,000 BCE W - Approximate beginning of the 1st Age of Middle-earth (per C. R. Davies' research). Before this, Draugluin is bred from wolves and inhabited with an evil spirit sent by Morgoth (who may have been Azathoth), making him the sire of all werewolves of Beleriand. [THE SILMARILLION, 1977, by J. R. R. Tolkien (published post-humously)] 34,500 BCE - Capture of Finrod's fortress of Minas Tirith by the forces of Sauron, its warden Orodreth flees for Nargothrond. Minas Tirith is renamed Tol-in-Gaurhoth, Isle of the Werewolves. Ten years later, the werewolf Carcharoth (the Red Maw) is involved with the Quest for the Silmaril; Lúthien enchanted him with her magic, but on their way out of Angband Carcharoth attacks. Beren held out the captured Silmaril in an attempt to stay the beast, but Carcharoth bit off Beren's hand at the wrist with Silmaril and all. He later died with the Silmaril still inside him (Carcharoth is roughly equivalent to the Norse wolf-god Fenrir). [THE SILMARILLION, 1977, by J. R. R. Tolkien (published post-humously)] 31,000 BCE - The sentient Wargs of the 3rd Age are thought to be descended from werewolves, or represent an attempt by Sauron to recreate them. In THE HOBBIT, the Wargs appear twice, once in chasing Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and the dwarves just east of the Misty Mountains, and once at the Battle of Five Armies. In the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, they are most prominently mentioned in the middle of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, where a band of Wargs, unaccompanied by Orcs, attack the Fellowship in Hollin (Specific Tolkien references were taken from the Wikipedia articles on Middle-earth). [THE HOBBIT, 1937, by J. R. R. Tolkien] 24,000 BCE C - Inuta (forerunners of the Inuit) and hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcome many-templed Olathoe and slay all the heros of the land of Lomar (possibly modern Greenland). The Gnophkeh humans appear to be connected to a six-limbed demonic race called the Gnoph-keh, both of which are associated with the worship of Ithaqua the Wind-Walker, as per THE BOOK OF EIBON. [Polaris, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc. by H. P. Lovecraft] 18,000 BCE C - The Wolf-Men, under the leadership of Tu (advisor of Kull and secretly a Wolf-Man), attempt to usurp the throne of King Kull in Valusia, with plans to ultimately become the dominant race on the planet. They are defeated, and many warring nations are united through the effort to stop them. [Kull the Conqueror #2, 1971, Marvel Comics] (for a full account of Kull's experiences with the Wolf-Men, as well as a discussion of werewolves in the Marvel Universe, please see the excellent Wolf-Men profile at Marvel Appendix, written by Greg O’Driscoll w/ commentary by Jean-Marc Lofficier) W Dagar discovers that the legendary “lobrostone” can cure werewolves of the curse of lycanthropy. [THE BEAST WITHIN, Dagar the Invincible #2, Gold Key Comics, 1972, by Donald F. Glut and Jesse Santos] (Dagar’s descendant, Adam Spektor, would also seek the cure of the lobrostone after being afflicted with the curse of the werewolf, as noted by Win Eckert) 8000 BCE D - Caine slays his brother Abel as a blood offering to God, who is displeased and condemns him. Caine becomes involved with Lilith, and through her becomes the world's 1st vampire. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf, based on the Book of Genesis] 4000 BCE D - Caine creates three Childer (vampire offspring) at Enoch, the First City. These three in turn create 13 vampire progeny who become the founders of the 13 vampire clans. One legend holds that Ennoia, a daughter of Adam and Lillith, became mother of the Lupine race (werewolves) as well as the gypsies. Ennoia also traveled to Enoch, where she became a 3rd Generation vampire (and founder of the Gangrel clan). [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 3112 BCE - The Scorpion King makes a pact with a demonic force claiming to be the god Anubis, and leads an army of Jackal-Men on a conquest of the ancient world, starting with Thebes. [The Mummy Returns, 2001] (According to Jose Ricardo G. Bondoc's article A Natural History of the Tooniverse, these creatures were "Proto-Toons") 2600 BCE - Possible era for the Epic of Gilgamesh (the Sumerian king of Uruk) to occur. Gilgamesh's rival (and later ally) Enkidu was a man-beast (the 1st man-beast in literature) created from clay by the goddess Aruru. Enkidu is eventually killed by an illness sent to him by the goddess Ishtar (who was also responsible for transforming a shepherd into a wolf). [THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, c. 2000 BCE] D - Enkidu is embraced by Gangrel in Sumer. The Gangrels live in Ur until its destruction by the Setites. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1550 BCE - King Lycaon of Arcadia serves human flesh to the sky god Zeus and is transformed into a wolf for his crimes (originating the term 'Lycanthrope'). Zeus also shows his displeasure by causing the Deucalanian flood which ends Greek Age of Bronze (and ushers in the Greek Golden Age), as recorded by Pausanias the Geographer and Apollodorus the mythographer. [For other variations on this myth, please see the Wikipedia entry on Lycaon] 1228 BCE - Possible date for Odysseus' 12-year ODYSSEY to begin, which includes undead who drink blood, mermaid-like sirens, and Circe the witch who likes to transform men into animals. [The Odyssey, c. 850 BCE, by "Homer"] 753 BCE - Romulus & Remus, brothers suckled by a she-wolf (Lupa Romana) as infants, found the City of Rome. 700 BCE - Three tribes of lycanthropes are known to roam near Rome. One of them is the Luceres (Lucumones), possibly founded by Lokros, the son of Zeus and the she-wolf Maira. 540 BCE - King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon suffers a mental affliction causing him to live as an animal for nearly four years. [Daniel 4:15-33, 27th Book of the Old Testament] 33 CE D - While Christ is being Crucifixed, a young Gypsie steels one of the nails, and was told by Jesus that his family will be free of the commandment "Thou shault not steal". Gypsie Folklore. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 300s - The Viking saga of VOLSUNGA (or VÖLSUNGASAGA) tells the story of Sigmund and his son Sinfiotli who don ulf-har to become werewolves for a time. 311 - Most accurate dating for the martyrdon of St. Christopher suggests he died in early November, 311 A.D. Despite later depictions of St. Christopher as a soldier or giant, he was originally described as being a Cynocephali (dog-headed race of cannibals) named Reprobus who converted to Christianity and was granted a human visage for his faith. [Special thanks to Sean Curtin for bringing this to my attention. For more info regarding the Cynocephali and St. Christopher, please visit The Greatest Werewolf Secret page by Sharon] 400s - Approximate date when Jute Beowulf of Gothland fought the Grendel and its mother near the Danish hall Heorot. [Beowulf, c. 725, Grendel (by John Gardner) 1971] - Likely era for the AGE OF CAMELOT. Among King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table were two werewolves; Sir Marrok (aka Bisclavret) and Sir Gorlagon. [Le Morte D'Arthur, Book XIX, Chapter 11, 1469, by Sir Thomas Mallory; BISCLAVRET ("Lay of a werewolf"), 1165, by Marie de France] - Setanta, son of Emain Macha and the sun god Lugh, lives as a hound and becomes known as Cuchulain. - A Hungarian village is decimated by plague. There is only one survivor, Alexander Corvinus, who's body managed to alter the virus for his benefit, making him immortal. There is a legend that states that he had three children; one, bitten by a bat, became the first vampire; another, bitten by a wolf, became the first "Lycan" or werewolf; the third was cursed to a mortal human life. [Underworld, 2003] 700s - Werewolves in Dacia (later Romania), led by Walter Volknor and his allies Golarin, Bordak, Mary, and Stytentos, battle Avatar and his vampire horde to protect a humanity that fears and hates them. [MOONWARRIORS, 2004, by Rusty Nugent] (View the author's homepage for the novel here) 1000 D - The mystical Order of Hermes identifies a disturbance in the raw material of magic, as well as tremblings in the fabric of reality. Scrying shows a coming shift in the magical axis due to the forces of Dominion and Reason. With magic failing, magi made immortal through the use of potions will age and die. Each House of Magi begins searching for a way to stop the inevitable decline. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] - Ebrok magically creates the Cat People. The Sorcerors' Guild banish the Cat People to an extradimensional realm, where they flourish and learn magic, but Flavius and Helene, the first two Cat People, escape banishment and remain with their mentor Ebrok. [Marvel Comics] (Cat-People write-up) 1101 - Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, a Ukrainian werewolf. 1195 - WILLIAM THE WEREWOLF composed by Guilliaume de Palerne. 1200s - Young lovers Isabeau and Etienne of Navarre are transformed into a werehawk and a werewolf by the evil Bishop of Aquila, and break the curse three years later with help from a thief calld Phillipe "the Mouse" Gaston. [Ladyhawke, 1985] 1201 - Lucian, a werewolf slave of the Corvinus vampires in the Carpathian mountains, aids his masters in hunting rogue members of his own kind. [UNDERWORLD: BLOOD ENEMY, 2004, by Greg Cox] 1202 - Lucian leads the werewolf sevants of Castle Corvinus in repelling human attackers, and protects the vampire princess Sonja from an ambush that slays her mother. When her father Viktor ascends from his 200-year slumber, he takes Lucian with him on the vampire raid against the humans, killing all in the nearby village of Strasba. [UNDERWORLD: BLOOD ENEMY, 2004, by Greg Cox] Lucian secretly weds princess Sonja after impregnating her. When the lovers are betrayed, Viktor kills his disappointing daughter but Lucian escapes, leading a lycanthrope (lycan, for short) revolt against their undead oppressors. [UNDERWORLD: BLOOD ENEMY, 2004, by Greg Cox] 1233 - Pope Gregory IX urges bishops to rid Europe of shape-shifting witches, initiates the Inquisition. Witches are identified by the abilities to shapeshift, fly or ride objects through the air, and use of cannibalism, child murder, salves, animal familiars, and demon invocations. 1257 - The Roman Catholic Church sanctions torture to force witches, werewolves, and shape-shifters to confess. 1344 S - While traveling through France, immortal bumblers Ollu and Buzsla encounter a young woman being harrased by a wolf. They discover the girl's grandmother has already been infected by lycanthropy and slay her, and later are forced to kill the woman herself, when she changes upon the next full moon. [Immortal Befuddled-Double Trouble: Medieval, 2002 by Dennis Power, based on "Fumbled Fairy Tale" episode of Abbot & Costello animated series] 1347 - Bubonic Plague spreads across Asia and Europe as the Black Death. 1373 - East Africa: Koro defends his tribe from European vampires and werewolves, accidentally becoming a lycan himself. Shunned by his own people, Koro joins the werewolf leader Lucian and assumes a new identity as Raze. [Underworld: Red In Tooth and Claw #1-3, 2004, IDW Comics] 1403 - The werewolf Lucian, who has led an army of werewolves in war against vampires since his vampiress bride, Sonja, was murdered, fakes his own death with the help of a power-hungry vampire named Kraven. [Underworld, 2003] 1450 - Approximate date when Mixcatl is stolen from her jungle village and bound into slavery in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan at the age of six. She labors as a menial at a priests' school and apprentices as a scribe. Wise Coyote, tlatoani (Speaker King) of the client state Texcoco, learns that Mixcatl is a member of the clan called the Jaguar's Children, fabled rulers from a distant time. As Wise Coyote tries to use Mixcatl's as yet unrevealed talent as a shape-changer in his struggle against the Aztec king Ilhuicamina, whose sacrifices to the god Hummingbird on the Left grow vaster and deadlier every year, the girl attempts to control her growing powers while developing a gentle love for his son, the artist Huetzin. [THE JAGUAR PRINCESS, 1993, by Clare Bell] 1500s D - Canadian Lupines from the Wendigo tribe start settling in the forest land of northern New England. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1500s (late) F - Birth the sinister Monsieur Le Loup, a primary ancestor of the Lupin line. Le Loup was a fierce bandit and swordsman of the 16th century, who fought and ultimately was defeated by the Puritan Solomon Kane. [Weird Tales, August 1928, ‘Red Shadows’, written by Robert E. Howard] (see Jean-Marc Lofficier's Genealogical Tree on the entire Lupin Family) W - In a village outside of Torkertown, England, Gideon Harkins loses his family to a female werewolf called the Silver One, and is later transformed into a werewolf himself. The Silver One poses as Gideon's sister to trick Solomon Kane into slaying Harkins, shortly after which Kane slays the Silver One as well. [Savage Sword of Conan#14/4, September 1976, by Doug Moench and Mike Zeck] (Read the bio on The Silver One written by Jeff "Snood" Christiansen for Marvel Appendix) 1500 - The Diet of Augsburg rules that Christians may kill gypsies without legal penalty. 1567 M - Rex Rufus is captured by by a group of Aztec Vampire women. Their master, a soul clone of Dracula, transformed Rex Rufus by spell into a were-wolf. This spell goes awry as latent theriomorphic traits are also triggered in Rex Rufus. A combination of the wolf and bear theriomorphic traits creates the upright humanoid "Wolfman". [SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA DRÁCULA Y EL HOMBRE LOBO (EL SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN), 1972] (note that the events of the actual film differ from this entry somewhat, as this follow's Chuck Loridan's "Children of the Night" WNU / MONSTAAH timeline) 1590 - English adventurer Edward Webb writes of a hairy wild man he saw in captivity at the court of Prester John. 1610 - On New Year's Eve, Elisabeth Bathory's orgy of blood is interrupted at Castle Csejthe in Hungary, revealing the mutilated bodies of at least 600 girls she had tortured and drained of blood over the last 11 years. Elisabeth practiced satanic witchcraft and bathed in the blood of young maids to remain eternally youthful. She was known to consort with Sorcerers, Alchemists, Vampires, and Werewolves. 1614 - Witch-hunter Irineus Daninsky is cursed with lycanthropy by the vampire-witch Elisabeth Bathory as she is burned at the stake. [El Retorno de Walpurgis, 1973] - Bathory does not die the true death, though, and continues to exist as a vampire. [Chill RPG and numerous other sources] 1658 D - The Florentine Heresy unrooted. Inquisitors burned for knowingly ministering to Kindred, lupines and witches. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1680 F - Birth of Valentine de Poulduc, a.k.a. La Louve (The She-Wolf), a member of the Lupin family and the secret society of the Wolves, headquarted in the forest of Rennes in Britanny, which opposed the Monarchy. [The She-Wolf, 1855, written by Paul Féval] (see the article by Jean-Marc Lofficier dedicated to Valentine's amazing family, the Lupins) 1690 - Little Red Riding Hood faces a werewolf at Grandma's house. [The Company of Wolves, 1984] 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. 1697 - "Little Red Riding Hood" published in Perrault's CONTES. Early versions of the tales involved werewolves, witches, and the Dark Woodsman. 1700s - Kibakichi, a lycanthropic samurai warrior from a shadow realm of Yokai, strives to maintain balance against the forces of evil. [Kibakichi Bakko-Yokaiden (aka Kibakichi), 2003] 1756 - Mme. Leprince de Beaumont records the most familiar version of the 'Beauty and the Beast' legend in her MAGASIN DES ENFANS. 1760 F - Disguised as the White Wolf, Jean Blanc (a member of the covert Wolfshead society) fights for justice in the forest of Rennes. [Le Loup Blanc ("The White Wolf"), Paul H. C. Féval, 1843] (see the article The Inheritors by Jean-Marc Lofficier) 1764 - Bête de Gévaudon (the Beast of Gevaudon) starts a widespread werewolf scare in Auvergne that lasts until 1767. The Beast was a Loup-garou, and was slain by Jean Chastel, using bullets made from a silver chalice. [Brotherhod of the Wolf, 2002] 1770 M - Birth of Sir Martin Talbot, Lord of Talbot Castle in Llanwely, Wales. 1776 - The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria of Adam Weishaupt founded in Ingolstadt. 1779 M - Birth of Peter Talbot, younger brother of Sir Martin. 1780 - In the woods near the French town of Villers-Cotterêts, Thibault, the son of a shoemaker in 17th Century France, is nearly beaten to death by a group of aristocrats and is saved only by making a pact with the devil which appears as a large black wolf. The devil offers Thibault the power to harm or kill anyone he wishes, but the more evil acts he commits, the more he starts turning into a wolf himself . [Le Meneur de loups ("The Wolf Leader"), 1858 by Alexandre Dumas] (researched by Chuck Loridans) 1781 S - When a young woman is placed in the cell of Andre Rojas he cannot control his strong sexual urges and sexually assaults her. He goes into a catatonic state as a consequence of his guilt and is thought to be dead. 1790s S - Andre Rojas finally becomes cured of the effects of his head wound. He fights for Spain during the Peninuslar War and against the French on the Continent, he eventually ends up in Poland where he becomes the lover of Countess Wolfenstein. Their progeny Inre Wolfenstein is the first to be cursed with a family trait of lycanthropy that culiminates in Waldemar Daninsky. 1795 F - A Meteor strikes near Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England on December 13, 1795, resulting in a series of benevolent mutations in the bloodlines of those present. Among the affected is Louis Lupin, a coachman and latent lycanthrope. (This factual meteor has been used as the entire basis for the "Wold Newton Universe" concept first popularized by author Philip José Farmer in Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Further, Jean-Marc Lofficier has expanded upon the effect this had on the Lupin line in his article The Conspiracy.) - Grigori Russoff is inflicted with lycanthropy while defending his wife Louisa from Dracula. The Russoff family bears the curse, even though Grigori's children had already been born at the time of the attack. [WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, Marvel Comics] (Please note that this report has been placed into dispute by recent sources suggesting that the Russoff lineage does not possess lycanthropy at all, and only the adoption of John Lawrence Talbot by Baron Ivor Russoff in the 1940s connects them. See later entries on this timeline, taken from Chuck Loridan's MONSTAAH timeline, for this Wold Newton interpretation.) 1805 - Members of the Lewis and Clark expedition discover Indian men who are able to change into wolves. [X-Files, "Shapes", 1994, FOX] 1814 - Chewbacca, an alien Wookie, and his human co-pilot crash land the Millenium Falcon in North America. The human is slain by natives, but Chewbacca survives, giving rise to Sasquash legends in the area. [STAR WARS TALES #19, "Into the Great Unknown", 2004] 1815 - A fort run by the Northeastern Empire Trading Company on the western edge of explored Canada runs out of supplies during the winter. The fort eventually burns down as Europeans and Native Americans alike fail to halt a lycanthropic curse spreading among them. [Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, 2004] 1818 - Galazi slays several beasts, including one believed to be the King of Werewolves on "Ghost Mountain". [NADA THE LILY, 1929, by H. Rider Haggard] (Get eText here) 1819 - Mowgli is born in India. He is soon orphaned and raised by wolves. [The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling] 1824 - A werewolf figures as a minor character in Charles Maturin's THE ALBIGENES (1st werewolf in Gothic literature). 1825 D - The Camarilla, in an effort to undermine native Garou strenght, has the US adopt a policy of transfering indians across the Mississippi river. [World Of Darkness game by White Wolf] 1830 S - Andre Rojas takes part in the disasterous Revolution of 1830. He was captured by Russian soldiers and deported to Siberia. 1834 S - Henry Lane born to Thomas Lane and Sarah Glendon. After his mother remarries his name will be changed to Jekyll. M - Birth of Lawrence Milo Talbot to Sir Martin and Elizabeth Talbot. 1837 M - Llanwelly, Wales. Upon the death of Sir Martin Talbot, his son Lawrence Milo Talbot is raised by his Uncle Peter. 1840s S - Andre Rojas escapes from Siberia and makes his way to Japan. Among the Ainu he is considered an avatar of the Bear god. He marries a Japanese woman but is eventually forced to leave because of the expulsion of foreigners. A descendent of his is Dr. Yogami of Werewolf of London. 1843 - Edgar Lenoir, 13th Duke of Darnley, develops lycanthropy after sustaining a scratch from a werewolf during a Carpathian hunting trip in December. [Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale, 2000, by David Holland] 1844 M - The werewolf Cornell battles fellow man-beast Ortega and prevents an unholy triumverate from resurrecting Dracula through human sacrifice. [Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, by Komandi for the N64 game system, as chronicled by Michael A. Ongsingco] - Darnley spends most of 1844 hiding out at his family home Murcheston, near Briston, exploring his new wolf form and his newly surfacing corruption. He murders a number of people in both wolf and human form, and is eventually killed at the hands of his friends Charles "Merry" Merideth and Bess. [Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale, 2000, by David Holland] 1845 M - Death of Elizabeth Talbot. 1846 - G.W.M. Reynolds publishes WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF. 1848 - The Moon turns blood red during an eclipse and sets off an epidemic of werewolf sightings. 1850 c. - Josephine, a 13-year old servant in Paris, is raped by the false priest Father Pitamont. She gives birth on December 24th to Bertrand Aymar Caillet, destined to become a werwolf. [The Werewolf of Paris, 1933, written by Guy Endore] - Leon Carledos, product of a serving girl raped by an imprisoned beggar, becomes a werewolf at a Spanish dance hall, and is eventually slain by his adoptive father using a silver bullet forged from a crucifix. [The Curse of the Werewolf, 1961, based upon Guy Endore's book "The Werewolf of Paris"] Bitmap 1855 D - Garou create the NYC central park caern. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1860 M - Bela Blasco is born to Dracula-Lejos, and Melava. Dracula’s plans are to make Bela, the leader of a pack of werewolves. When Bela reaches a certain age, he is given the Wolf's head scepter. The rod is made of ordinary wood, but the head of the wolf is made of a mixture of Silver, melded with bits of the star stone. This scepter, is believed to give one control of lycanthropes, even at their most beast like state. 1867 M - Llanwelly, Wales. Lawrence Milo Talbot and his friend Albert La Forge Graduate "Summa Cum Laude" from the University of Paris. Lawrence Milo returns to Llanwely and opens a medical practice, but finds many of the villagers put more faith in superstition. One of the causes of the villagers fear is a gypsy named Vorcla, (who is really Dracula-Lejos son, Bela who plans on founding a town of werewolves by isolating Llanwely from the rest of England by terrorizing the town and nearby environs. Talbot exposes Vorcla’s plans. Vorcla (Bela) curses Talbot with lycanthropy. When Talbot and his fiancée, Ann (also called Lyana) and his friend Albert believe they have killed Vorcla, they reason that the curse is over. Lawrence and Ann soon marry. Bela flees Llanwely in haste, leaving the Wolf's Head scepter behind. (Information derived mostly from agent Dells "THE WOLFMAN" file. Not to be confused with agents Siodmak and Dreadstone’s reports of the same title.) - Milo Zak and Albert la Forge both graduate from the University of Paris "Summa Cum Laude". Dr. Zak returns to Kavlec, the Balkan village he grew up in, and antagonizes Vorcla, a local werewolf extorting the villagers. Vorcla kills Milo's supporters and turns him into a werewolf. Basha the Gypsy King, Gauna the Witch, and Dr. Albert la Forge rescue Milo and kill Vorcla. [Wolfman #1, 1963, Dell Publishing Company] Note that this version , as presented in the comic, is not the same as depicted above, which is the version commonly accepted in the WNU) 1868 M - Transylvania: Bela returns to Castle Dracula in defeat and reports his Failure to his father. Dracula-Lejos is so enraged that he thrashes both Bela and Maleva. Bela tries to defend his mother and attacks Dracula. For this defiance Dracula curses Bela with uncontrollable lycanthropy. Bela is now one of those hapless souls that it had once been his birthright to rule. Maleva flees with her son and they rejoin the Gypsy tribe that Dracula had taken her from. Dracula-Lejos seems to take the attitude of good riddance. 1870 S - Dido Utterson the illegitimate daughter of Edward Hyde and Alice Utterson is born. 1871 S - Alice Utterson is placed under the care of Edward Jekyll for post partum depression compounded by guilt of her adulterous affair and the illegitimacy of her youngest daughter. Alice Utterson committed suicide. Henry Jekyll was devastated. He blamed himself for her death. He wrote to his brother detailing his actions and seeking advice. His brother was not the most understanding sort, he disowned Henry and his sins and turned his back on the Jekyll name. Leonard Jekyll forwent the Jekyll name and reassumed his birth name of Harrison Lane. D - Most of the Garou survive the Great fire of Chicago. During which Helena (winner) and Menele fought. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] - Sergeant Bertrand Caillet wanders France and Europe seeking a means to silence the beast within. His lycanthropy finally leads to court-marshall during the Franco-Prussian War. [The Werewolf of Paris, 1933, written by Guy Endore] 1872 S - Henry Jekyll took a leave of absence from his duties to go on a sabbatical. He sought solace by escaping from his life and assumed a new identity, that of Samuel Parr. As Samuel Parr, Jekyll worked as a surgeon-general with the Queen's army in Africa. 1875 - Morgan Holt (a werewolf) is released from prison after spending several years behind bars in a mercy killing of his ailing father whom he hated for deserting the family. For the next five years he roamed among wolf packs refusing human contact, until he is wounded and recieves aid from members of French's Fantastic family Circus. He performs as the Wolfman to help out. After a fire devastates the circus, Niall Munroe offers needed funding if the circus performs in Denver for an orphanage his wheelchair-bound sister Athena sponsors. Athena and Morgan fall in love as he shows her the hidden wolf inside her, but her sibling has other plans that exclude Morgan. [TO CATCH A WOLF, 2003 written by Susan Krinard] 1876 D - Custer gets stomped by a pack of Wendigo garou at Little Big Horn. [World Of Darkness RPG by White Wolf] 1878 M - Birth of Sir John Talbot to Lawrence Milo and Anne Talbot. Soon after his son's birth, Lawrence Milo Talbot’s lycanthropy returns. Unlike his namesake Grandson, who will be afflicted with the same curse, Talbot does not try to end his life. To protect his loved ones he hunts Vorcla (Bela) having heard he was still alive. When Talbot finds that Vorcla (Bela) was the son of Dracula he hunts the Lord of the Vampires as well. Talbot battles Dracula at some point, the details of which are unknown. It is confirmed however that Talbot traveled to the United States to seek a cure from his curse from a tribe of native Americans who were rumored to be Lycanthropes. M - There was a Larry Talbot who was seen in very interesting company during a particular Lonesome October in England but I have been unable to confirm at this point whether or not this Talbot was Lawrence Milo. [A Night In The Lonesome October, By Robert Zelazny] (note that the novel sports not only a werewolf who is likely Lawrence Milo Talbot, but also a werewolf who may have been Sherlock Holmes or a relative) 1879 S - January: As Samuel Parr, Jekyll was present at Isandhlwana. Some accounts state that he bolted at the first sign of the onslaught, other accounts state that he had already left the area and was well on his way to Roarke's Drift before the fighting began. What appears to have happened was that Parr/Jekyll did indeed depart prior to the fighting began but before the Zulu's had arrived. His anxiety to leave was to avoid seeing one Danvers Carew. 1881 S - Henry Jekyll's affair with Sara Lanyon, his friend's sixteen year old daughter. This union produces Edward Jekyll. 1883 S - October 1883 - March 1885 Events of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1885 S - Events of the Jekyll Legacy by Robert Bloch and Andre Norton 1887 S - Events of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, by H.G. Wells. 1888 D - The Wind Catcher Sept is established at the Fianna. [World Of Darkness RPG by White Wolf] - Queen Victoria gives direct orders for the extermination of therianthropes of all kinds in Britain and all it's colonies, especially Tasmania. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] To accommodate claims that Prince Albert, who passed away in 1864, was himself a werewolf (and that the Queen knew of this), it is proposed that Robert Cecil, son of the 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, pushed this edict as the Conservative Party Leader and Prime Minister of England. Because of political reliance on the Marquis' support, Victoria endorced the Act. Thus, the Queen publically supported the ban on lycanthropes but privately supported the shapeshifters. 1889 - President Harrison follows Victoria's example and begins a program for the extermination of therianthropes in the United States. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] 1890 - Mr. Talbot has taken the Werewolf Club in Uncle H. G. Talbot's unreliable time-and-space machine to 1890 London -- where it might be a tad difficult to buy the 212 double-A batteries they need for the machine to get them home. While they're figuring out what to do, the young werewolves meet a street urchin named Oliver Twit, help legendary detective Sherlock Holmes thwart the notorious Jack the Schlepper (possibly a theriomorph similar in manifestation to Edward Hyde) in his attempt to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London, and discover that Queen Victoria's late husband Albert was a werewolf. [THE WEREWOLF CLUB MEETS OLIVER TWIT, 2001, Daniel M Pinkwater; For a list of all of Pinkwater's books in chronological order, visit the P-Zone] 1892 - Frontiersman surprises his new bride when he wolfs out. [Mad at the Moon, 1992] 1894 - Wine merchant Charles "Merry" Merideth, his wife Bess and son Eugenie long dead, relates the sad tale of the 13th Duke of Darnley to Whitby, the 15th Duke of Darnley, at a pub in London. [Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale, 2000, by David Holland] 1895 - Janet Smith, the Daughter of Dr. Jekyll arrives in England and discovers her father's old assistant in a werewolf. [The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, 1957] Bitmap W - Dr. John Coleridge, an American professor of folklore, leads a search for a werewolf in Hungary. [THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF, 1983, by Basil Copper] (researched by Win Eckert) 1897 - Quentin Collins becomes the Collinsport werewolf. [Dark Shadows, 1968] W - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson work with Daily Gazette reporter James McArdle on a strange case filed under 'X' for "unknown. [WOLFMAN OF DARTMOOR, 1999, by Kel Richards] (researched by Win Eckert) 1898 - The Vatican-sponsored monster hunter called Gabriel Van Helsing fights Mr. Hyde in London at Queen Victoria's Jubilee and defeats him in Paris atop the Notre Dame Cathedral. Afterwards, Van Halsing is led by the ghost of a psychic to Dr. Moreau's sewer-based lair and encounters a number of his freakish experiments, including an invisible amphibian. [Van Helsing: The London Assignment, 2004; Van Helsing, 2004; Van Helsing: Beneath the Rue Morgue #1, 2004, DarkHorse Comics] (Please note that this date, 10 years after the date given in the movie, has been proposed by Rick Leigh to support the known activities of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Griffin, while still including a Jubilee celebration for Queen Victoria as being "one year ago") S - Edward Hyde is forced to work with the League of Extraordinary Gentleman. While so employed he does battle with Fu Manchu, Moriarty, the 1st Invisible Man (Griffin), and Martian Invaders. [League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol I, II, by Alan Moore] - Gabriel Van Helsing and Friar Carl travel to Transylvania in October and fight werewolves and vampires with the aid of local gypsy Anna Valerious and an escaped Frankenstein's Monster. They defeat Dracula and his minions when Van Helsing becomes a werewolf, but Anna dies from her injuries. [Van Helsing, 2004] 1900Waldemar Daninsky, cursed with lycanthropy since birth, is killed by his pregnant wife Kinga. [El Retorno de Walpurgis, 1973] - A Georgia man inherits his father's land and his lycanthropy. [Wolfman--A Lycanthrope, 1979] 1900 M - Llanwelly. Sir John Talbot’s wife dies in childbirth with the child being stillborn. W - Transylvania. Sir John’s father, Lawrence Milo Talbot, in werewolf form slays the wife and child of Dr. Anton Zarnak. Zarnak tracks Talbot down and slays him, and devotes his life thereafter to protecting humanity from such abominations. At this point we do not know if Talbot was permanently killed or is wandering around even today. (Zarnak's WNU chronology has been worked out by Matthew Baugh) 1902 M - Birth of John and Lawrence Stewart Talbot, twins to Sir John Talbot and Cleva Creihton Tull (Sir John’s mistress, an actress from California) in Llanwely, Wales. 1904 - Family man Arthur Lemming of Dwarves' Bay, England is horrified to learn that he is a murderous werewolf (as are his wife Angela and daughter Miriam). He eventually has his mind and his lycanthropy transferred into the body of a living mummy. [Eerie, "Curse of the Werewolf" and "The Mummy Walks" serials] (as researched by Chris "the Norseman" N.) 1905 S - Events of Son of Dr. Jekyll - An American Anthropologist named Beckmeyer films an aborigine tribe in Australia peforming a ceremonial slaying of a werewolf. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] 1906 S - Edward Hyde is in New York City where he murders for thrill and also rapes for amusement. While there, He rapes Jada Grimm, who becomes pregnant. 1907 S - Edward Hyde rapes Constance Brodie and Martha Walters at exclusive boarding house. S - Daniel Grimm is born of the rape of Jada Grimm by Edward Hyde. 1908 - Visiting Collinwood in 1908 with Barnabas is Dr. Henry Jeckyll [sic], son of the notorious English murderer. The beautiful Emily Collins is torn between Barnabas and Dr. Jeckyll but wonders if one is a violent killer. The real murderer is killed by Collinsport's werewolf, Quentin Collins. [DARK SHADOWS BOOK #27: BARNABAS, QUENTIN AND DR. JECKYLL'S SON, 1971, written by Dan Ross (as Marilyn Ross)] - On June 30, 1908, a huge explosion occurred in the sky above the central Siberian wilderness near the Tunguska River in Russia. The concussion from the blast, estimated at 20 megatons of TNT, leveled trees in an area nearly 40 miles in diameter. Oddly, the explosion produced no crater or other evidence of impact. - Lawrence "Larry" Talbot is born in Talbot Castle in Wales to John Talbot. The local village, and family castle, has a "gruesome past" involving werewolves. [The Wolfman, 1941] S - Brian and Francis Banner born to Constance Brodie Banner and John Banner. D - Papal Office of the Inquisition renamed the Congregation of the Holy Office and forbidden to use force. Pope Pius X allows Order of Leopold to depart Church. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1909 S - Edward Hyde tangles with Tarzan and is apparently killed. Henry Jekyll flees to Australia and disappears from the face of the Earth. Purportedly resided in a series of parallel dimensions until 1949. S - Marvin Micawber, the scion of the Micawber family disappears from his family farm in Darling Australia about the same time as Henry Jekyll disappeared. 1910 - Mistakingly believing werewolves to be extinct, the United States and Britain disband their werewolf-hunting programs. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] 1911 S - Events of Dr. Jekyll- Sister Hyde F - Harry Dickson investigates "THE WEREWOLF OF RUTHERFORD GRANGE" (story in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 1: The Modern Babylon, 2005, written by G.L. Gick, edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press) 1912 S - Birth of Howard Jekyll, son of Edwina Hyde and Howard Spenser. S - Birth of Susan Smith, daughter of Susan Spenser and Edward Jekyll. - Dracula takes Vincent Frankenstein and his fiance Ericka hostage in an attempt to get a new Frankenstein Monster. Ericka is transformed into a werewolf by one of Dracula's servants, but retains enough control over her animal form to help Vincent escape from Castle Dracula. [Neal Adams' Monsters, 2004] 1913 - One hundred years ago, a Navajo woman named Kee-On-Ee who believed she has been abandoned by her husband (who has actually been killed) became a witch. Her daughter, Watuma, was taught to hate all white men and sought vengeance by attacking the invading whites in wolf form, until she encounterd a friar and his cross. She returns from death 100 years later to kill the sweetheart of the reincarnation of the man who shot her lover. [The Werewolf, 1913] (This 13 minute long silent movie used a real wolf in the transformation scene) W - Miss Mina Murray reforms The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the team is now comprised of Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Jr., and Professor Challenger) and, in the caves beneath Paris’ famed Opera House, they fight their French counterparts, Les Hommes Mystérieux (aeronaut Jean Robur, the Nyctalope, Arsène Lupin, Fantômas, and Tiziraou). [“The New Traveller’s Almanac, Chapter Two: Europe” in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II, 2003, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill] (Cousins le Nyctalope and Arsène Lupin are both non-shifting lycanthropes) - Film production companies in the U.S. and Great Britain release fourth and fifth versions of "Jekyll and Hyde". 1914 - A timber wolf ensnared in a trap is shown to be an Indian medicine man who is infatuated with an already-betrothed woman. [The White Wolf, 1914] 1915 - [The Wolfman, 1915] 1916 - During WWI, American pilot Jack Shannon and British occultist Archibald Caldwell are sent into the Black Forest to stop a German plot to create an army of Frankenstein Monsters. They encounter vampires (led by Graf Orlock), the original Frankenstein Monster, and German werewolf soldiers. [The Black Forest, 2004, by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnel] 1917 S - Events of The Hyena by Robert E. Howard. Ellen Farrell is the daughter of Dido Utterson. 1918 S - Andre Rojas living in England under the name of Andreas is made into a full blown lycanthrope by Dracula soul clone Armand Tesla. First part of Return of the Vampire C - 1918 -1920 - Lt. Studnikov of the Soviet Army encounters Ghouls when suppressing an outbreak of cannibalism in Siberia. [Pandora's Box, 2002, part of ANOMALIES, by the Man in Black] 1919 - The approximate date of the founding of the Thule Society in Germany. A young and earnest Adolf Hitler is among their early members. 1920 - Right-wing terror group, Operation Werewolf, is established in Germany by Fritz Kappe. 1922 The Fraternity of the Inner Light is founded by Dion Fortune, who has a dramatic and frightening encounter with a werewolf. 1923 - A murderer cursed by a priest becomes a werwolf and is killed when struck by lightning. [Le Loup Garou, 1923] D - A mining operation in Chicago uncovered the catacombs of the Wyrm creatures. All Garou unite to fight the common enemy. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] 1925 - A transfusion of she-wolf blood turns Canadian logger Dick Bannister into a werewolf. [Wolf Blood, 1925] S - Daniel Grimm jr. born D - An old Philodox of the Children of Gaia has a vision, about the release of Jupiter once again. It is dismissed by most. [World Of Darkness games by White Wolf] W - Dr. Anton Zarnak saves Ram Singh from an Indian were-tiger. In gratitude the fierce rajput pledges his life in service to him. (Zarnak's WNU chronology has been worked out by Matthew Baugh) 1928 S - Benjamin Grimm born. - The Massachusettes town of Innsmouth is raided by U.S. agents and the Navy. They find a colony of human / deep one hybrids, and wipe them out. As a result of the encounter, the PPPP-Division is created. [Delta Green, RPG Suppliment (and related fiction) for CALL OF CTHULHU, 1993, Pagan Press] 1930 S - Robert Bruce Banner born S - The son of Dr. Moreau continues his father's experiments, as seen in the film The Island of Lost Souls. - A Trego Indian boy named Ish is born. [X-Files, "Shapes", 1994, FOX] 1931 S - David Bruce Banner born 1932 W - Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five, along with Doc's cousin Patricia, investigate the Brand of the Werewolf. ["Brand of the Werewolf", January 1934 issue of Doc Savage Magazine, by Lester Dent] (For a complete Doc Savage timeline, please visit Win Eckert's The Doc Savage Chronology) - An escaped convict explains to his young son that he is always on the run because a werewolf is chasing him. [Le Loup Garou, 1932 (based on the novel "Der Schwarze Mann" by Alfred Machard)] 1933 S - Events of Daughter of Dr. Jekyll M - Upon the death of his twin brother John Talbot Jr, Lawrence Stewart Talbot, returns to Talbot Castle in Llanwely, Wales. Talbot purchases the Wolf's head scepter that somehow winds up in a small Llanwelian shop. Having no idea of its purpose he uses it as a novelty cane. Later he is bitten by and slays Bela Blasko. Talbot becomes a werewolf. He finds a friend in Melava the gypsy who seeks to help him, but in the end is apparently slain by his own father who uses the Wolf's head scepter as the instrument of death. John Talbot dies of grief soon after. (See agent Kurt Siodmak’s report THE WOLFMAN and for additional information, see Agent Carl Dreadstone’s follow up report with the same title) M During these events, the body of John Talbot Jr. is exhumed, from the Talbot family tomb, by agents of Dracula and transported to Castle Dracula. Dracula-Prime turns John Jr. into a soul clone named Grodimn, and bestows upon him the Star-stone ring. (Recent evidence shows that John Talbot Jr. was himself a werewolf and was originally killed when shot by hunters mistaking him for an animal. This fact shows that Dracula-Prime might have had an easier time, making a soul-clone out of a creature already tainted with Un-dead blood.) - The Scorpion King, who has become an enormous man-scorpion, is finally killed by American adventurer Rick O'Connell and his family. [The Mummy Returns, 2001] 1934 W - Dr. Wilfred Glendon is bitten by a werewolf on a trip to Tibet, and becomes one himself during the full moon after his return to London. Asian mystic Yogami (also a werewolf) fights him for possession of the Marifasa lupina, the moon poppy capable of curing lycanthropy, but both werewolves die before the antedote can be used. (according to Jess Nevins' Wold Newton Universe Timeline, the werewolf who attacked Wilfred was in the employ of the Nine Unknown) [The Werewolf of London, 1935] 1935 S - Jennifer Walters born. 1936 - Two years after the defeat of the Scorpion King, the O'Connells are again waging war against Imhotep the Mummy. At one point Rick O'Connell becomes a werewolf while in Wales. ["Howl" episode of Mummy - The Animated Series, 2002] 1937 M - Lawrence Stewart Talbot is revived when grave looters open his tomb as the full moon arises. Talbot awakens in a London hospital with a horrible realization; he cannot die! Talbot escapes the hospital seeks out and finds Maleva. Talbot asks Maleva for one simple thing, to help him end his wretched life. The two of them end up journeying to Visaria, seeking the aid of Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein. Instead they end up encountering Ludwig’s daughter Elsa and Henry Frankenstein’s monster. (with Ygor’s brain). Talbot, as the Wolfman, fights with the Monster until the castle laboratory crumbles around them. (See agent Siodmak’s report FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN) 1938 W The Frankenstein Creature and The Wolf Man have a brief rematch. [Scary Monsters Magazine #51, Dennis Druktenis Publishing, June 2004, by “Professor Anton Griffin"] (researched by Win Eckert) 1940 S - Leonard "Doc" Samson born. M - Dracula-Latos meets an untimely end due to the sunrise. Dr. Niemann continues his quest by traveling to the remains of the late Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein’s laboratory. In the caverns below he discovers the frozen bodies of Lawrence Stewart Talbot (In Wolfman form) and Henry Frankenstein’s monster (With Ygor’s brain) Niemann revives both, and takes them to his old lab in the outskirts of Visaria. Dr. Niemann's plans to fully charge the Monster, are spoiled when the hunchback Daniel becomes jealous over a gypsy girl he fancies love for Talbot. Chaos erupts. Talbot is shot with a silver bullet fired by the hand of one who loves him. (A legendary way to kill a werewolf-- which has never proven to be true) and Dr. Niemann and the Monster seem to meet their fate as they sink into a swamp. (See agent Siodmak’s report HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN not to be confused with Prof. Mark Brown's article with the same title.) - Vaclav Polacek, Dr. Harold Shea, and others are transported to a universe based on Coleridge’s Xanadu, where Polacek manifests lycanthropy as the result of a spell. [CASTLE OF IRON, 1941, by L Sprague de Camp] - Dr. "Indiana" Jones and Short Round discover the Millenium Falcon while searching for evidence of Big Foot for the Museum. Dr. Jones finds the remains of a human inside, and comments on a sense of familiarity. The "Big Foot" in question, Chewbacca (or a possible descendant) remains undiscovered at this time. [STAR WARS TALES #19, "Into the Great Unknown", 2004] 1941 - Lawrence Talbot returns to Wales, and is bitten by Bela, a gypsie werewolf, transferring the curse to him. [The Wolfman, 1941] (Note that this is seen as occuring differently in the "Wold Newton Universe". See the 1933 entry for details) - Two women, Doris and Marian, travel to the Yorkshire moors a year after a friend of theirs named Evelyn went missing in the area. They get caught in a storm, and take refuge in a cottage owned by a name named Stephen, a shell-shocked veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Marian falls in love with Stephen but begins to suspect there is more to Evelyn's disappearance, and there is certainly something peculiar about Stephen. [The Night Has Eyes, 1942 (also known as "Terror House")] Bitmap 1942 W - February: In the rain-swept coastal town of Bay City, L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe has a brush with the Deep Ones and becomes one of the few people to lay eyes on The Necronomicon. Also appearing are Edwin Winthrop, agent of a special section of British Intelligence especially assigned to deal with Cthulhuoid horrors, and his vampire partner, Geneviève Dieudonné. Special Agent Finlay of the "Unnameables" Section of the FBI is also part of the anti-Cthulhu task-force. [THE BIG FISH, 1995, by Kim Newman (published in the FAMOUS MONSTERS anthology)] (researched by Win Eckert for the WNU Crossover Chronology) - A European woman discovers she transforms into a black panther when aroused. [The Cat People, 1942] - A man unwillingly transforms into the murderous "Catman of Paris". M - Lawrence Stewart Talbot is revived, (At this time, how this happened is unknown) he moves to a flat in London, still hoping to find a way to permanently die. Dr. Peter Drury contacts Talbot saying he wants to cure him, but really wants samples of Talbot's blood, to make super soldiers. (Drury would later work with the blood of Frank Griffen, AKA the Invisible Agent) (From Agent Jeff Rovin’s report THE RETURN OF THE WOLFMAN) - OK Farm boy Warren Griffith is declared 4F due to his lycanthropy, but is recruited to the military's new Project M to be one of the Creature Commandos, alongside other "monsters". [WEIRD WAR TALES #93, 1980] S - Dr. Lorenzo Cameron attempts to create a race of super-soldier werewolves by injecting a human subject with wolf's blood. The unfortunate subject is Pedro Roja, a descendent of Rex Rufus. His latent lycanthropy is triggered. Cameron and Pedro apparently die in a fire. [The Mad Monster, 1942] - The Hammond family of Cornwall has a centuries' old lycanthropic curse. [The Undying Monster, 1942 (aka "The Hammond Mystery")] Bitmap W - The Shadow investigates "Case of the Phantom Werewolf" in December. [The Shadow radio program #152, 27 Dec 1942] 1943 - "Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man" pairs off the two titular monsters for the first time, in the European village of Vasaria. Larry Talbot is resurrected by foolish graverobbers and in turn resurrects the Monster. (Note that this is seen as occuring differently in the "Wold Newton Universe". See the 1937 entry for details) Bitmap - Mad scientist transforms men into apes. [The Ape Man, 1943] - Reginald de Malveneur is a scientist attempting to discover the secret of total cellular rejuvenation. When a young governess, Monique Valory, arrives at the castle of the Malveneurs, she learns that Reginald, who is master of the house, has disappeared along with the gamekeeper. With the help of a young painter, Philippe, she begins to suspect that there is something strange at work in the household. [The Wolf of the Malveneurs (aka "Le Loup des Malveneur"), 1943] Bitmap - Priscilla Rich becomes the Cheetah, a schizophrenic personality that is sometimes characterized in comics as a genuine therianthrope, and begins a life-long emnity against Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #6, FALL 1946, National Periodicals] W December - The Avenger investigates an outbreak of bloody killings, in which all the victims bear the marks of attack by wolves. He discovers a lab-created werewolf is behind the attacks. [Avenger #26: Red Moon, 1974, written by Kenneth Robeson] (special thanks to researchers Art Bollmann and Rick Lai for this information) 1944 - Dr. Neimann escapes from a lunatic asylum and revives the monsters Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man, so that he can exact revenge on his enemies. "The House of Frankenstein" includes mention of a silver bullet terminating a werewolf (Larry Talbot) and adds to the Hollywood werewolf mythology. [House of Frankenstein (aka "Chamber of Horrors", "The Devil's Brood", "Doom of Dracula"), 1944] Bitmap - Celeste La Tour, raised by the Trioga gypsies, is actually a Romany princess, descended from Marie Laveau. Like her ancestor, she has the ability to turn herself into a wolf at will. When a team from the local museum discover Laveau's tomb, she begins killing them off one by one as a werewolf. [Cry of the Werewolf (aka "Daughter of the Werewolf"), 1944] Bitmap S - The vampire Armand Tesla is revived during the London Blitz of WW2 and Andre Rojas once again becomes a lycanthrope under Tesla's domination. [The Return of the Vampire, 1944] S - The regenerative ability of the lycanthrope and the chemicals of Dr. Sullivan's laboratory combined with the bacteria rich muck of the swamp combined to create a new monster from the charred bones of Pedro Rojs which climbed out the swamps. a large hulking figure but completely stark white skin, hair and even the eyes were bleached white. It was bereft of memory and child-like in its mental capacity. The lycanthropic traits of a strong streak of violence and seeming impervious to harm were also present. The creature was called Solomon Grundy. - Curly, Larry and Moe are working as bellboys in a large hotel. A side show promoter shows up his latest attraction, a Wolf Man named 'Lupe'. He escapes, and hilarity ensues. [Idle Roomers (aka "The Three Stooges Meet the Wolf Man"), 1944] Bitmap - The Shonokin, a humanoid race that lived in North America before the Indians, is discovered alive in the Appalachians. [THE SHONOKINS, 1944, by Manley Wade Wellman] - Russian émigré to Britain Michael Gallatin serves as a secret agent to extract vital information from occupied Paris. He discovers a Nazi operation called IRON FIST and must use his abilities as a master spy and a werewolf to escape in time for D-Day. [The Wolf's Hour, 1989, by Robert R. McCammon] 1945 W - John Thunstone battles the Shonokins with the aid of two brothers named Jackson Warren. One of them will later aid Silver John in his own struggle with the Shonokins. [TWICE CURSED, 1946, by Manley Wade Wellman (published in WEIRD TALES Magazine)] (researched by Win Eckert for the WNU Crossover Chronology) - Goebbels resurrects Operation Werewolf as a terrorist society. - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima; 78,000 killed. - Dracula arrives at the office of Dr. Edelman, asking for a cure to his vampirism, secretly to get near Edelman's assistant and turn her into a vampire. Lawrence Talbot then shows up seeking a cure for his own curse, which he truthfully desires. Edelman's first attempt is unsuccessful, so Talbot attempts to kill himself by leaping from a cliff ... but ends up in a network of underground caves where he discovers Frankenstein's monster. The three monsters begin a supernatural struggle for power. [House of Dracula (aka "The Wolf Man's Cure"), 1945] S - Larry Talbot marries Miliza, and they live happily for 2 months 'till his lycanthropy returns and he kills her. (This is according to agent Jeff Rovin's reports.) New information obtained by Prof. Baugh and MONSTAAH Director Loridan reveals that Miliza was not killed although Talbot believed she was. W Jim Brandon, aka The Avenger, fights against the evil Professor Krueger’s scheme to create superwerewolves. Krueger reveals that in another life he was known by an Irish name – Moriarty. After the adventure, The Shadow invisibly comes to Brandon and warns him to continue to use his powers of invisibility for justice. ["The Maker of Werewolves", published in It’s That Time Again 2: More New Stories of Old-Time Radio, 2004, Jim Harmon, ed., BearManor Media.] (researched by Win Eckert) S New findings show that the wedding of Lawrence Stewart Talbot and Miliza Morelle was attended by Melava Blasko, one of the few people Talbot considered a true friend. Melava’s heightened senses told her that not only was Talbot not permanently cured, but that Miliza was pregnant. Melava planned ahead for the night when she knew Talbot would once again revert to his beast like state and secreted Miliza away to safety. Talbot was lead to believe that he had killed Miliza so that he would not go searching for her. - A London heiress, Phyllis Allenby, begins to suspect that her ancestors were werewolves, and that she is under the influence of a family curse. [She-Wolf of London, 1946] Bitmap 1946 S - Birth of John Lawrence Talbot , son of Lawrence Stewart Talbot and Miliza Morelle. S - After being taken to a safe place, Miliza is comforted by Baron Ivor Russoff, a kind man introduced to her by Melava . The two marry and Baron Russoff adopts John Lawrence. S - A month or so later, Lawrence Stewart Talbot, in Werewolf form is near the home of Baron Russoff. The Wolfman catches the scent of his former wife in her bed room, he crashes through her window and mates with her, purely through instinct. (wolves chose one mate for life) whether or not the Wolfman would have killed Miliza is unknow, because as soon as the seed was planted Baron Russoff entered the room with a rifle, firing at the manbeast. The Wolfman leaped out of the window fleeing to the woods beyond. When Talbot awoke the next morning human once more, he of course had no memory of the event. Talbot at the time was on the trail of Dracula, who was near by so it is quite possible that the Lord of the Undead himself, manipulated these events. S - 18 months after the birth of her older brother, John Lawrence, Melissa (Lissa) Maureen Russoff is born. She is the daughter of Miliza Russoff and Lawrence Stewart Talbot. At Melava’s suggestion Baron Russoff moves his wife and two adopted children, to the U.S.A. S - In the States, Russoff changes his last name to Russell. S - During childhood young John Lawrence becomes attached to the family dog. His young mind is impressed that the breed name (Jack Russell Terrier) is similar to his own and starts calling himself "Jack". S - Meanwhile Jack's true father, Lawrence Stewart Talbot travels the globe in pursuit of Dracula. Talbot believes that destroying the Vampire King might make up for some of the evil that he himself has done. If he can succeed in this mission, he can then try to fulfill his fondest wish; to die. - J. Edgar Hoover opens the very first Unexplained Phenomenon (X-File) case, dealing with lycanthropy. During World War II a series of murders occurs around the Northwest, including seven in Browning, Montana. Each victim is ripped to shreds and eaten, as if by a wild animal. Several of the victims, however, were found at home, as if they had invited their killer into their homes. In Glacier National Park, authorities corner what they believe is this animal in a cabin. They shoot it, but when they enter the cabin to retrieve the dead animal they find only the body of Richard Watkins. The murders stop. Hoover locks the cases away in the X-Files, because they are unsolved. A 16 year old Trego Indian boy named Ish briefly sees the animal transform near Watkin's house and believes it to be a werewolf. [X-Files, "Shapes", 1994, FOX] - The Shonokin encounter the hero Thunstone in the Appalachians. [SHONOKIN TOWN, 1944, by Manley Wade Wellman] 1947 W - In January, the Shadow investigates "The Werewolf Of Hamilton Mansion". [The Shadow radio program #280, 5 Jan 1947] - An X-File is opened on the Jersey Devil case after a man is dragged off by an unknown animal while changing a car tire in the New Jersey woods. Search teams with dogs find his body with a leg eaten off. Nearby, officers corner the animal in a cave and shoot it, but it turns out to be a large naked man. An autopsy reveals that he has bits of human flesh in his stomach. [X-Files, "The Jersey Devil", 1993, FOX] S - Wilbur Grey and Chick Young (actually the immortal duo Ollu and Buzsla) guard the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula when they are shipped to the USA from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula wakes up, escapes with the monster, and with the help of his new vampiric helper Dr Sandra Mornay searches for a new "doner" brain. They abduct Wilbur, intending to remove his brain. Larry Talbot arrives from London to deal with Dracula, and helps Chick to find Wilbur, but when the full moon rises he becomes the Wolf Man, and the USA has three monsters to deal with! The duo escape, but Mr. MacDougal, who insisted that they guard Dracula's coffin, did not fare so well. He was bitten by Larry Talbot and became the notorious Beast of LaMirada.Also 'appearing' is the Invisible Man. [Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948] [Immortal Befuddled-Double Trouble: 20th Century, 2002 by Dennis Power, based on "Werewolf Whimwham" episode of Abbot & Costello animated series and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"] Bitmap 1948 - A mermaid falls in love with a British man. [Miranda, 1948] - A mermaid falls in love with a Boston man. [Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid, 1948] S - LaMirada, Florida: Lawrence Stewart Talbot, tracks Dracula (Lejos) all the way to North America. Dracula, is in the company of Henry Frankenstein’s Monster, (Still housing the brain of Dracula’s son Ygor) and is in league with Dr. Sandra Mornay, a descendent of Dr. Moreau. Dracula and Mornay also have possession of Henry Frankenstein’s notebook. S - Dracula’s plan is to replace Ygor’s brain with that of a bumbling, easily controlled shipping clerk. (Ygor’s will proved to be harder to control even with the Star-stone ring working in concert with the creature's neck bolts made from the same stone.) Dracula and Talbot meet on La Viuda Island just off the coast of LaMirada. Talbot has encountered both the Latos and the Lejos soul clones so he is not fooled by Dracula calling himself Dr. Lejos. Talbot foils Dracula’s plan, and Dracula, barely escapes. S - Talbot, with the assistance of an understanding woman, named Joan Raymond, impales himself with a shard of silver, returning him to his deathlike hibernation and entombs him in the bowels of the ancient castle that stands on La Viuda island. Unknown to both of them, the monster of Henry Frankenstein, also slumbers there. (See the strangely titled file ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN and agent Jeff Rovin's report "THE RETURN OF THE WOLF MAN") 1949 M - Bereft of their memories Henry Jekyll and Jessica Marvellous (Rabbit) return with Harold Shea to the Garadan Insitute in Ohio. Jessica recovers faster than Jekyll and takes the name Jennifer Marshall. Henry Jekyll takes the name of Alvin Samuels. Since both were blank slates their original personalities were pretty much eradicated however due to his regenerative capabilities Henry Jekyll and hence Mr. Hyde could not be entirely erased. [adapted for the WNU by Dennis Power from L. Sprague de Camp's THE CASTLE OF IRON (1950)] D - Jonather Peabody presents himself to the Garou of the Fanum, and arrange to help them if they would protect his 'mummy' body when he died. They agreed, but after he died he never returned. [World Of Darkness game by White Wolf] 1952 - Demonologist Ed Warren and his clairvoyant wife Lorraine found the New England Society for Psychic Research as its directors. They have been involved in many high profile cases and run the Occult Museum in Farmington CT. - Mad scientist transforms men into apes. [The Boys from Brooklyn, 1952] D - Hoover creates SAD (Special Affairs Department) of the FBI under the advice of Dr. Emil Zotos, his psychaiatrist, (a technocractic mage). Charles Horner is named its head. [World Of Darkness game by White Wolf] - The first FBI "Unexplained File" dealing with what comes to be known as the "Moth Men" case is opened. The case involved primitive-looking men with glowing red eyes.[X-Files, "Detour", 1997, FOX] 1954 - A werewolf intending to catch human prey finds himself the prey of a monster-hunting robot. ["Monsters in the Night", OCT 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Clark Ashton Smith] - Three scientists locate an amphibious Gill-Man. [Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954] - Another series of murders in the northwest, in which the victims are ripped to shreds and eaten (by a werewolf), is investigated. The case remains unsolved. [X-Files, "Shapes", 1994, FOX] 1955 - American serveman discovers a woman in the Far East who transforms into a cobra. [Cult of the Cobra, 1955] - Gill Man taken to Florida theme park escapes. [Revenge of the Creature, 1955] S - Alvin Samuels leaves the Garaden Institute. W - SAD encounters the decapitated head of a Brujah Union boss and stores the head in a jar in a high-security vault. One of the few pieces of conclusive evidence of the supernatural. [World Of Darkness game by White Wolf] 1956 - A Gill Man is captured by scientists, who attempt to adapt its lungs for air. [The Creature Walks Among Us, 1956] - Mole people enslaved by Sumarians in an underground civilization revolt. [The Mole People, 1956] - Duncan Marsh is treated for injuries from a car wreck with a special chemical distilled from wolves and changed into a werewolf. After killing some people in California he is gunned down and dies. [The Werewolf, 1956] Bitmap S - The son of Dr. Moreau dies after a failed second attempt to perfect his father's work, as seen in the film The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). - A group of five hunters in Montana is attacked by a creature that appears to be half man and half bat. Five people die or disappear. In some cases, body parts are found later at a significant distance from the body. Ernie Stefaniuk is attacked by the man-bat, but the man-bat is eventually killed. Another man-bat begins stalking Ernie who soon goes into hiding that will last until the year 2000. His wife, Ariel, goes into hiding with him on an island. Ernie forbids her to tell her mother where they have gone. Ernie's brother, Myron, sends supplies to the island via a raft that is pulled across the water like a ferry. Ernie has deep gouge wounds on his face, possibly from the initial attack or a later encounter with the man-bat. [X-Files, "Patience", 2000, FOX] 1957 - Tony Rivers is induced by Dr. Alfred Brandon to transform into a mindless werewolf. [I Was a Teenage Werewolf (aka "Blood of the Werewolf") 1957, starring Michael Lan - [The Cat Girl, 1957] - A honeymooning couple encounters a Gill Man, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, and the Wolfman. [El Castillo de los Monstros, 1969] Bitmap S - Robert Bruce Banner is exposed to "gamma" radiation and becomes a full blown theriomorph (the Hulk). W - At the its largest size with 25 agents, SAD loses six as a result of the investigations into Denise Gerard and Dr. Timothy Clarke. [World Of Darkness game by White Wolf] 1958 - A Mexican pianist becomes a werewolf whenever his greatest concerto is played. [El Hombre y el Monstro (aka "The Man and the Monster"), 1958] Bitmap - A Communist agent planted in America creates werewolves in order to start a panic in the U.S. He is undone when attacked by one of his own creations, who is then aided by a scientist. [The Professor (tv pilot, unaired), 1958] Bitmap - A scientist experimenting in teleportation accidentally merges with a fly [The Fly, 1958] - Seven children in Derry, Maine battle a shape-shifting evil that at different times appears as a werewolf and the Gill-Man. [IT, by Stephen King] - Teen actor Larry Drake becomes a real Teenage Werewolf when a mad props effects expert uses him and a teenage Frankenstein in a bizarre revenge scheme. [How to Make a Monster, 1958] Bitmap - Lawrence Talbot accidentally revives Dracula and fights both the vampire and a Frankenstein Monster. [Return of the Wolfman, 1957, one of the Don Glut classic horror fan films of the era] 1959 - Lawrence Talbot seeks a cure from Dr. Frankenstein, who uses the Wolf Man to assist in controlling his Monster and getting the parts for a new, Teenage Frankenstein monster. [THE TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, 1959, one of the Don Glut classic horror fan films of the era] - A mummy who had been inflicted with lycanthropy in life returns from the dead (possible ancestor of Larry Talbot). [The Face of the Screaming Werewolf, 1959] - Lawrence Talbot is summoned by Dracula to be his slave, but manages to escape the vampire's control and defeats him. [SLAVE OF THE VAMPIRE, 1959, one of the Don Glut classic horror fan films of the era] S - Seymour Kahlbaum and his talking carnivorous plant Audrey II go on a killing spree. Events of Little Shop of Horrors - Dr. Macabre transforms young Tony Rivers (it is unlikely that this was the same Tony Rivers who appeared in 1957's "I was a Teenage Werewolf") into a Teenage Werewolf. Tony kills the doctor and goes on to fight many other monsters. [The Teenage Werewolf, The Return of the Teenage Werewolf, The Teenage Frankenstein Meets the Teenage Werewolf, all three made in 1959 by Don Glut] (visit Don Glut's Teenage Horror Movies page) 1960 - Lawrence "the Wolf Man" Talbot gets his kicks on Route 66. [Route 66, 1960] S - Benjamin Grimm undergoes his first theriomorphic change (the Thing). - Tony Rivers (II ?) uses his lycanthropic form to kill members of rival motorcycle gangs until the survivors join together and gang up on Tony in a dark alley with stakes, bricks and bullets. [REVENGE OF THE TEENAGE WEREWOLF, 1960, written by, directed by, and starring Don Glut] (visit Don Glut's Teenage Horror Movies page) A plane loaded with dancing girls heading to Singapore crash-lands on an island inhabited by a mutant spider. Gary, the only male among the survivors, is bitten and mutates into a werespider. [EinToter hing im Netz (aka A Corpse Hangs in the Web, Body in the Web, Girls of Spider Island, Horrors of Spider Island, It's Hot in Paradise, The Spider's Web), 1960] 1961 - A young man becomes a werewolf, is imprisoned by his girlfriend's father, and escapes only to die. [The Curse of the Werewolf (aka "The Curse of Siniestro"), 1961] S - Sherman Klump born - Tony Rivers again becomes the Teenage Werewolf, survives a gunfight and forms an alliance with the Teenage Dracula in hopes of finding a cure for his condition. Instead, young Drac uses him to revive the Teenage Frankenstein (a monster, not a doctor), but the vampire is betrayed by Reece Renfield and the other two monsters battle it out, seemingly to the death. [MONSTER RUMBLE, 1961, written by, directed by, and starring Don Glut, and (potentially), TEENAGE MONSTER RUMBLE, a planned professional remake] (visit Don Glut's MONSTER RUMBLE page) S - Julius Kahlbaum succeeds in releasing his Hyde, "Buddy Love" S - Alvin Samuels (Dr. Henry Jekyll) succeeds in releasing Mr. Hyde. He begins a long time emnity of Dr. Donald Blake and the crime fighter Thor. - A love potion turns a man into a cat in Spain. [Abuelita Charlestón ("Little Grandma Charleston"), 1961] 1962 - Italian women's reform school director is a werewolf with a psychotic mistress. [Lycanthropus, 1962] - A mermaid and her pet shark swim the California-Mexico coast. [The Mermaid of Tiburon, 1962] S - The second Spider battles the Alligator-Man for the first of several times. In comic books, this appears as Spider-Man fighting the Lizard. [Amazing Spider-Man #6, 1963] 1964 - US Intelligence intercepts Soviet reports of werewolf attacks in Siberia. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] - The Munsters live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, including the man-made monster Hermann, his vampire wife Lily (and her father "Grampa", actually Dracula-Grimpost), 11-year old werewolf Eddie, and the couple's ordinary niece Marilyn (in one episode, it is revealed that Lily's brother is also a werewolf). [The Munsters, 1964] - Two werewolves fall in love and are killed. [La Loba, 1964] - Birth of Irena Cortez in El Centro, Arizona. Like her parents, Irena is born a natural werewolf, and is trained by them in the use of her powers. She would fondly remember running with them through the deserts and mountains during full moons. [Real Ghostbusters #5, NOW Comics] The exact year is conjecture proposed at the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline. - Marsupial werewolves are persecuted in Australia. [Howling III--The Marsupials, 1987] 1966 - Dark Shadows 1st aires - [Curse of the Swamp Creature] - Crew of the Seawolf submarine faces an outbreak of lycanthropy. [Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1966] - Mothman, a humanoid with a large wingspan and capable of flying 100 mph, is spotted in the TNT area of West Viginia on November 14. Fox Mulder believes this creature is related to ones spotted later in Florida. [X-Files, "Detour", 1997, FOX] 1967 - Davy Jones's amorous desires for a brunette beauty lead him and the other Monkees to a spooky house inhabited by Dracula, The Wolfman, and The Mummie. ["Monstrous Monkee Mash" episode of The Monkees, aired 22 JAN 1967] (researched by Art Bollman) - Barnabas Collins the vampire appears on Dark Shadows - Count Waldemar Daninsky becomes a werewolf and kills a pair of Hungarian vampires. Though he is slain, Daninsky can only be killed for good if done in by a woman who loves him. [La Marca del Hombre Lobo, 1968] - [Return From the Past, 1967] 1968 - Quentin Collins the werewolf appears on Dark Shadows - [El Bosque del Lobo, 1968] - Count Waldemar Daninsky (El Hombre Lobo) is used by Dr Braddoch (a mad scientist) in a revenge plot. [Las Noches del Hombre Lobo, 1968] 1969 - Count & Countess Dracula are disturbed by a werewolf at their home in the Mojave Desert. [Blood of Dracula's Castle, 1969] - Scientist Odo Warnoff from the planet Ummo revives Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, a mummy, and Count Waldemar Daninsky the werewolf. Daninsky kills the other monsters and runs off the alien. [El Hombre que Vino de Ummo, 1969] - A mummy fights a jackal man. [The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals, 1969] - A farmer becomes a werewolf and starts hunting Woodstock hippies. [The Werewolf of W |