I didn't see anyone answer Ted's earlier question about where he might've read Dillard, but I saw his essays in a book collection entitled "HORROR FILMS." Maybe Ted encountered the book but didn't recall the author. I found the one I read in a local library, and I imagine that as young fans many of us hunted down all the library reference works on horror that we could find.

One thing about the gypsies in WOLF MAN: they may have the disease of werewolfism amidst them, but they're shown to have more insight in the ways of the world than the blinkered residents of the modern Welsh town. The local preacher upbraids Maleva because her people are "making merry" after a death instead of being solemn in accordance with Christian tradition. Cool old Maleva refuses to argue and just says that she couldn't change things if she wanted to. We don't really get to know any other gypsies except Bela, who's at least mortified when the old curse starts coming back, and tries to save Jenny. But Maleva is constantly on top of things. Her back-and-forth with Sir John, in which she reads him like an open book, is one of my favorite pieces of dialogue, anywhere.