Benjamin Welton is a freelance writer based in Boston. His work has appeared in <i>The Atlantic</i>, <i>The Weekly Standard</i>, <i>Listverse</i>, <i>Metal Injection</i>, and others. He currently blo
Although detective stories frequently revolve around a missing person (a crime
that allows a little bit of chaos to pervade our brains with destabilizing
questions) and murders, most end with tidy conclusions that
Beginning in the nineteenth century, the English-speaking world saw the rebirth
of a strange type of clergyman: the priest-scholar interested in the
otherworldly. While men of the cloth have long been part of
Regarded as the Dracula or Frankenstein of werewolf novels by the few who have
read it, Guy Endore’sThe Werewolf of Paris is the story of Bertrand Caillet, a
young man from the
