“No lantern ever kept the darkness from hungering.”

As a kid, I always favoured werewolves over vampires. Their brutality and ferociousness were what always scared me in my younger years when I experienced werewolf fiction. I remember sleepless nights after watching 'The Wolfman' for the first time.
I wanted to convey these emotions and what scared me back in the day in this painting. The relentless pursuit of the carriage that took place beforehand, finally, the moment of pure terror on the man's face as he realizes his doom, and the horse in panic, captured in time.
I love to create worlds, scenes, and emotions with my art; this piece is no different.

What I always remember is the maddening hunger after I wake up.
The contract has a price. I do what I do because I am the best at this.
It's simple - I've no limits. I have no control once I turn; all I feel is blood, and the terror from the screams.
Pay is always in gold, and I need something from the victim - something personal. People don't know that we, the Wolfchanged, have almost an otherworldly sense of smell. All it takes is an item. Sure, the stronger smell the better, but it makes little difference in the end.
And this contract? Revenge on someone. I ask them for a simple reason - curiosity. What more human feeling is there than curiosity?
I do despise the process of the change. I do not remember anything once I wake up, but it always hurts. Pain so deep and violent that it feels like years of suffering, but it happens in a few seconds.
So, I take the item and leave for the forest. I look at the sky and find the moon. Then? Then I remember only the pain.
And the maddening hunger.

Lore written specifically for this illustration by my dear friend Franek Grabarczyk