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31 days of halloween, Angela Carter, annette curtis klause, blood and chocolate, claire de lune, cristine johnson, emily pohl-wear, forever, francesca lia block, ginger snaps, lonely werewolf girl, maggie stiefvater, martin millar, my what big teeth you have, neil jordan, not your ordinary wolf girl, sam lee, shape shifting, the bloody chamber, the company of wolves, the curious room, the frenzy, the wolves of mercy falls, trick 'r treat, vivian gandillon, werewolves
It seems that teenaged girlhood and werewolf transformation would be an obvious metaphor that should have been trampled into banality by now. You have, of course, the irrationality and unpredictability of hormones, the physical evolution of the female form during puberty, and the onset of the menstrual cycle, which is both obviously bloody, classically tied to the full moon, and colloquially known as The Curse. One shouldn’t be hard pressed to find examples of teenaged girls exploring their (often unwilling) transformations into hairy beasts with notoriously lusty appetites. But despite this obvious symbolism, the texts and films that explore it are surprisingly few and far between. Continue reading