First published in 1933, Guy Endore s The Werewolf of Paris may finally be coming into its own. Like those other horror classics, Mary Shelley s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker s Dracula, this notorious novel doesn t just aim for raw head-and-bloody-bones gruesomeness. Perhaps its closest analogue may actually be still another classic about the savage demons inside us all, Robert Louis Stevenson s Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Endore stresses how much we are all the playthings of dark impulses beyond our understanding. --Michael Dirda