Werewolf Fiction Timeline
Crazy Ivan’s TIMELINE OF WEREWOLF AND THERIANTHROPE FICTION Last updated: 06 JUL 2005 Conventions: Sources are listed in [Brackets]. Episode titles are in “Quotations”. … Read more
Werewolf art
Being an archetypal monster of the same grade as the vampire, the werewolf has been used in many movies, short stories, and novels. Its original nature has been somehow altered, giving birth to something different than the original mythos.
Werewolves in fiction can have many different characteristics. While many stories describe lycanthropy as a disease or curse, and werewolves as killers, others treat werewolves as a fantasy race.
Discover the long tail of the werewolf in classic literature and modern films.
Popular art
The first time a werewolf appeared in the television series was in the Seventh Doctor serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988). A wolf-man appears in the 1986 Sixth Doctor story Mindwarp, and the primords in the 1970 Third Doctor story Inferno are also lupine in appearance, but in both cases these are induced … Read more
Werewolf movies
The first feature film to use an anthropomorphic werewolf was Werewolf of London in 1935, not to be confused with the 1981 film of a similar title, establishing the canon that the werewolf always kills what he loves most. The main werewolf of this film was a dapper London scientist who retained some of his … Read more
Nineteenth century literature
Nineteenth century Gothic horror stories drew on previous folklore and legend to present the theme of the werewolf in a new fictional form. An early example is Hugues, the Wer-Wolf by Sutherland Menzies published in 1838. In another, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf (1847) by G. W. M. Reynolds, we find the classic subject of a man … Read more
Classical literature
In medieval romances, such as Bisclavret, and Guillaume de Palerme the werewolf is relatively benign, appearing as the victim of evil magic and aiding knights errant. However, in most folk tales, (influenced by medieval theology) the werewolf was demonic, part of Satan’s army of darkness, inimical to the human race and having a craving for … Read more