Manticore - in Art and Literature

In Art and Literature

• The Manticore and Other Horrors is the tenth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.
• In the Divine Comedy, Geryon is depicted as a manticore-like demon that dwells at the deep barrier between the circles of violence and fraud.
• In The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, three characters engage in a fierce battle with a manticore while attempting to climb a mountain, before slaying it.
• Canadian writer Robertson Davies wrote a novel titled The Manticore, published in 1972. It is the second volume of his "Deptford Trilogy.
• Manticore is a planet that is home to the Star Kingdom of Manticore in David Weber's Honor Harrington series of books.
• The Manticore appears in Rick Riordon's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse.
• The Manticore appears in the Madeleine L'engle book Many Waters her third in the Wrinkle in Time Quintet
• The Manticore is depicted in music video and song by the New York-based comedy band Ninja Sex Party
• The Manticore is depicted on the cover of The Return Of The Manticore, a 4-disc retrospective album by progressive rock musical ensemble Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP).
• In the two-part pilot for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the ponies encounter a manticore in the Everfree Forest.
• In the musical Into the Woods, The Witch and the Baker and his Wife argue about possible culprits for recent violent events. In so doing they discuss the extinction of Griffins and the imaginary lore of Manticores.