In Popular Culture
Chararcters based on or named after Lamia appear as monsters or antagonists in various media. Notable appearances include:
Booker Prize winner A.S. Byatt's 1998 collection of short fiction, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice contains a short story entitled "A Lamia in the Cévennes".
The song "The Lamia" by progressive rock band Genesis from the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway references the mythical creature when Rael enters a room with cool water when three of these creatures appear to him.
"Lamia" is the title of a 2011 episode of the BBC TV series Merlin. The villainess is a lamia, said to be the product of the "Old Religion" combining women and serpents. She could alter men's minds and turn them to her will, leach their strength so they would sicken, and transform into a serpent-like monster.
The Lamia appears in the 2009 horror movie Drag Me to Hell voiced by Art Kimbro. It is an evil Hell demon that drags anyone to Hell that receives a special curse on that person's item from a gypsy. Its picture in the book depicts it as a wingless version of Baphomet.
Lamia is a monster in AdventureQuest Worlds. It resembles a recolored version of the Nure-onna.
Lamia is the main antagonist in Haley Riordan's short story Son of Magic (which is a part of The Demigod Diaries). She is serving Gaea upon her revival and tries to kill her demigod half-brother Alabaster C. Torrington and the mortal Dr. Harold Claymore (an author who studies death).
Lamia and Lamia Witches also appear in Joseph Delaney's book series The Wardstone Chronicles.
The character Brawne Lamia appears in Dan Simmons' novels Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. The works of John Keats feature heavily in the novels.
Lurine Hollister from Jacqueline Carey's Dark Currents is a Lamia. She is a supporting character who resides in Hel's domain and holds a certain type of authority within the water elemental community. Hollister notes that she is immortal as well as the only Lamia. She serves as the protagonists unofficial godmother and ally, and lives a relatively peaceful lifestyle as a retired B movie actress.
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