Peter Stump snuck out of the forest on the edge of the village. He slipped on his belt and felt the familiar rage burning inside of him.

As the woman he had spotted by the village square left the Pack street and wave goodbye to her friends, he sensed his opportunity.

Bounding across the field toward her, she barely had time to let out a scream before he tasted the familiar metallic zing of the blood.

The deed done, he left the remains on the ground and sculked off back to the woods,

removed the belt, and now, in the shape of a man walked casually back to the village.

As he turned into the busy street he greeted passes by with a spring in his step.

Peter Strump held a very dark secret close to his chest. This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

Today we know of Peter Stump primarily due to the work of Augustus Monique Summers, a literary scholar and clergyman with an interest in the occult who rediscovered a 16-page pamphlet that detailed

Stump's crimes and execution in his 1933 publication of

Werewolves in Law and Legend. The pamphlet's original title is practically a

booking itself but is generally shortened to the most

damnable life and death of Stuttpeter.

Originally written in High Dutch in 1590, somewhat as news but perhaps more so as entertainment.

It was bought to English shores and translated by a man named George Bors to be sold on Fleet

Street. Bors claimed to have bore witness to the entire ordeal.

There are no surviving copies in its original language

thanks to the destruction of the German landscape during the 30 years war, a conflict which also destroyed the birth records of Bedberg,

and which makes it impossible to know Peter's exact date of birth.

Two copies of the English translation survived that now reside in the British Museum and the Lambeth Library.

The document is written in beautiful Middle English and as such deserves its space forefront to our story.

The opening paragraph lays out the events we will delve into as such.

A true discourse, declaring the damnable life and death of one Stu Peter, a most wicked

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