HISTORY of WULF and BATSY

Part 2: Early Influences.

I don’t know how or when my love of Monsters began. It’s just always been there as far back as I can remember. Of course, there’s an endless list of Monster Movies I saw on TV and Monster Comics I loved as a kid that probably sparked it.

But then I started finding books like these which made me think about Monsters on a deeper level (for a kid anyway), and may have led me to start imagining my own stories about Monsters. Georgess McHargue’s books especially creeped me right the hell out, because they included supposedly true, historical accounts of real Werewolves and Vampires, described with deadly serious conviction.

Then there were books about how the Monster Movies I saw on TV were created. All gloriously illustrated with big, full-page black and white photographs, images that would become permanently burned in my brain.

Most of these books I found in my Elementary School library, and checked out & re-read endless times. Until I would finally bug my mom to take me to the bookstore so I could buy my own copy for keeps! Some of these I’ve literally owned since I was a kid in the late 1970’s – early 1980’s. Others I found and bought decades later at conventions or on Ebay.

Over the years I’ve accumulated many more great books on the same subjects but these are the ones I had as a kid that first set my storytelling imagination going. They are all, definitely part of the DNA of WULF AND BATSY!!

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-Bryan