Paranormal Romance Literature

P is for Paranormal Still by Lucida Dyer 

Abstract

     The article discusses factors behind the popularity of paranormal romance literature. The success of the genre is attributed by those in the publishing industry to the way paranormal stories reflect many of humanity's continuing struggles. According to Sourcebooks senior acquisitions editor Deb Werksman, the romance genre allows readers to escape into a story where heroes have remarkable sexual powers which they project onto their own human partners.

Abstract

     Examines the depiction of werewolves in motion pictures, and how they still exist in the human psyche. Outline of films that depicted man to werewolf transformations; Definition of the term werewolf; What has inspired the myth surrounding the human wolf; What became the key generating text for the modern figure of the werewolf.