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werewolves

Cultural

Legendary human beings who are magically transformed into wolves. Werewolves supposedly prowl at night, devouring babies and digging up corpses, and cannot be killed with ordinary weapons. They are particularly associated with the full moon.

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AI is essential for the popular romantasy genre where fantastical elements, from medieval castles to werewolves and fairies are common.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

But the agency did discover that a network of UFO believers within the Defense Department had created a program that investigated accounts of interdimensional creatures and werewolves on a ranch in Utah.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Renowned as a queen of literary horror — her stories brim with ghosts, werewolves, zombie infants — here she reveals a realist side, journalistic yet intimate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

“An Earth with climate change and nuclear war and, like, zombies and werewolves is still a way better place than Mars.”

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

Unless that was what you had to do with werewolves.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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