Yes, that quoted phrase is the subsection title that columnist Melanie Conklin of the Wisconsin State Journal of Madison, Wisconsin, employs in her little segment on the The Beast of Bray Road. It is not often that you see a modern newspaper writer employing what, in essence, is a racial slur with a mention about cryptozoology. But there it is.

Actually, to be specific, Conklin is quoting Linda Godfrey who is rather upset these days. Here is what Melanie Conklin wrote on July 12th, even mentioning this humble blog site along the way:

‘White-trash werewolf smorgasbord’

If you attend Wisconsin author Linda Godfrey’s book signing Thursday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble West (7433 Mineral Point Road [Madison, Wisconsin]) on her new book, Hunting the American Werewolf, you can leave with more than some bizarre tales of people who’ve spotted werewolves.

Godfrey, a former cartoonist, plans to bring a “grab bag” of “free signed Beast doodles,” which are little drawings she’s done of “the manwolf” on objects of no real value, like birch bark or old floppy disks.

But right now Godfrey, who was born in Madison and lives in Elkhorn, is busy replying to many queries about a movie that will air Saturday on the Sci Fi Channel that shares a title with her last book, The Beast of Bray Road. (Her blog on the topic was posted at cryptomundo.com.)

She wants to state for the record that the Elkhorn area’s alleged werewolf has nothing in common with the one in the movie that decapitates and disembowels random humans. “They portray Wisconsin residents as brawling, foul-mouthed, beer-guzzling hicks. It’s a white-trash werewolf smorgasbord,” says Godfrey. “I had nothing to do with the movie.”

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