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Between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious creature terrorized the French countryside, leaving over 100 dead. Was it a monstrous wolf, a cryptid, or something more sinister? This is the chilling true story of the Beast of Gévaudan — a real-life horror that still haunts history. For audio descriptions, go to Settings - Audio Track - English Descriptive. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateStoried ***** Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Executive Producer: Dr. Emily Zarka Producer: Thomas Fernandes Editor/Animator: P.W. Shelton Illustrator: Samuel Allan Executive in Charge (PBS): Maribel Lopez Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing Additional Footage: Shutterstock Music: APM Music Descriptive Audio & Captions provided by The Described and Captioned Media Program Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monstrumpbs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography Chaudon, Louis Mayeul. Historical and critical memoirs of the life and writings of M. de Voltaire: interspersed with numerous anecdotes, Poetical Pieces, Epigrams and Bon Mots, little known, and never before published in English, relative to the literati of France. Particularly the Life of the Celebrated J. B. Rousseau. As Written by Voltaire; and the History of the Famous Libellous Couplets. From the French of Dom Chaudon. Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]. Coyer, Gabriel François. A letter to Doctor Maty, Secretary of the Royal Society; containing an abstract of the relations of travellers of different nations, concerning the Patagonians; with a more particular account of the several discoveries of the latest French and English navigators, relative to this gigantic race of men; including a full reply to the objections made to their existence. By Abbé Coyer, F.R.S. Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand, MDCCLXVII. [1767]. DeMello, Margo, et al. “Sinister Canines in the Media: Animals in Popular Culture.” The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology, Routledge, 2024, pp. 677–89. Fenske, Michaela, and Bernhard Tschofen. Managing the Return of the Wild: Human Encounters with Wolves in Europe. Routledge, 2020. Grant, James. “The Wild Beast of Gevaudan.” The Argosy : A Magazine of Tales, Travels, Essays, and Poems, vol. 4, no. 1, 1867, pp. 54–62. Kimber, Edward, and Isaac Kimber. “A Very Particular Account of the Terrible Wild Beast That Now Infests the Gevaudan, in a Letter to a Friend.” London Magazine, or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, 1747-1783, vol. 34, 1765, pp. 140–140 Smith, Jay M. “Dreadful Enemies: The ‘Beast,’ the Hyena, and the Natural History in the Enlightenment.” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 13, no. 1, 2016, pp. 33–61. Smith, Jay M. Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast. Harvard University Press, 2011. Voltmer, Rita. “The Judge’s Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphosis in the Peripheries of Western Europe.” Werewolf Histories, edited by Blécourt, Willem de, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015, pp. 159+ Walpole, Horace. The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. In five volumes. ... Vol. 5, printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII. [1798].