Werewolves have been a fascinating topic since old times. It’s appearance is the most noticeable in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the story of King Lycaon. Werewolves play a fascinating and complicating role in the Western literary tradition. It is a role that has been sufficiently acknowledged and explored only with relation to the medieval period. Gradually, the early psychological view that shape-shifting figures are a sign or symptom of lunacy is carried into the twentieth century through the theory of psychoanalysis. The resurgence in popularity of the werewolf in modern literature and film marks a great retreat from the traditional mythology. The genre goes along dark or paranormal romance in were-fiction. This calls for its own investigation
