Brad Steiger

Writing since the 1960s, Brad Steiger has become one of the foremost authorities on UFOs and the paranormal. He is considered an expert on various psychic, spiritual, and physical aspects of human transformation. In The Werewolf Book, from which the following essay is taken, Steiger creates an encyclopedic history of knowledge concerning the transformation of man into beast. In this excerpt Steiger argues for the existence of werewolves, claiming a close relationship between humans and wolves that has existed since the dawn of time. His evidence demonstrates that, far from being the deranged, bloodthirsty beasts of the forests described in eyewitness accounts, there are very real modernday werewolves who just might be the seemingly harmless man next door. Steiger claims that murderers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas, and Harry Gordon...