[Aladdin Paperbacks; 1986; 0689710682; $4.50] [BB]
- Rating: 5 Cause: CM Result: MP Significance: 0
Description: + Saturation: 0. A research experiment tests ways to expand the mental
abilities of rats and mice, as well as extending their lifespans. It succeeds. The rats
and mice escape and start building their own civilization. As with all classic children's
books it is a delight to read even as an adult. Basis for the movie "The Secret of
NIMH." -104 (98/02/06)
[?]
[Ace; 1990; 0441066895; $3.95] [BB]
[Tor; 1988; 0812547942; $3.50] [BB]
[TOR; 1986; 0812548000; $2.95] [BB]
- [Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN.] ...A kind of fable
about a royal family who find out how to run their own lives better. There's three parts,
one for each member of the family. In the middle section, the queen is changed into a cat,
so that she can see what people really think of her. It was a pretty good book, and
actually not very preachy (although my little summary may make it seem a little so). -3
[Syracuse University Press; 1986; 0815623844; $17.95] [BB]
- Rating: 4 Cause: Varied Result: LY Significance: +
Description: Varied Saturation: +. Not itself a transformation book, but rather a
collection of samples of texts about werewolves, lycanthropy and shapeshifting in general
over the past few thousand years. It includes various reports, pieces of myth, scholarly
essays about the problems of werewolves, studies of lycanthropy as allegory. Some of it's
compelling; some of it dull, but probably anyone would find something of interest. -104 (98/02/07)
- Lycanthropy. -154
[Mentor; 1960; 0451626222; $6.99] [BB]
- [Result: BX.] This work was composed around
the first century A.D., and was written as a sort of history of the world according to
(Greek- influenced) Roman mythology. To give coherence to what was essentially a
collection of short tales, Ovid chose those stories with the common theme of
transformation of people or things into something else. Thus, the title... -16
- Not exactly werewolf stuff, but it pretty much started the ball rolling... -71
Where to from here?
Copyright © 1993-2000 Phaedrus /
Books N 
Transformation Stories List
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH {/104/} [BBT]
Becoming Alien {//42} [BBT]
A
Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture {104/154/} [BBT]