The article is devoted to linguistic peculiarities of a mythologem in modern fiction. It gives a review of different approaches to the problem of interpretation of myth and mythologem in linguistic literature. Various linguistic means of mythologem represetation in fictional texts are considered. The analysis of the extracts from fiction reveals individual peculiarities of mythologem usage by different writers and allows to decode their intentions and to see the depth of the content in fictional texts. The importance of the research comes out of insufficiency of researches devoted to peculiarities of mythologems in modern English and American literature.