Legion in Popular Culture - in Literature

In Literature

  • "My Name is Legion" is a 1942 short story by Lester del Rey.
  • My Name is Legion is a 1976 collection of three stories by Roger Zelazny.
  • My Name is Legion is a 1999 crime novel by Sheila Martin Berry.
  • Legion is one of the main characters in Nyctivoe, a vampire-inspired contemporary 2001 play by Dimitris Lyacos
  • Legion is the name of the main villain, a disturbed veteran of the conflict in Afghanistan, in Chasing the Dead, a 2010 thriller by journalist and writer Tim Weaver.
  • My Name is Legion is a 2004 novel by A. N. Wilson.
  • O Meu Nome É Legião ("My Name is Legion" in Portuguese) is a 2007 novel by António Lobo Antunes.
  • Randall Flagg, the villain in Stephen King's The Stand, refers to himself as Legion and has a trace memory of being kicked into a herd of pigs by Jesus. Flagg is also a main antagonist in King's Dark Tower Series, where he is directly referred to as Legion.
  • "Our Name is legion" is also quoted in Stephen King's It. During Interlude One, the Gas Station Worker's Wife is commented to have heard voices from the drain of her sink during the 1957 incident.
  • "We are Myria LeJean" is used to introduce this character in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time. She is a manifestation of an auditor, a being which will be destroyed if it shows any sign of individuality. "Myria" is easily associated with "myriad", and "LeJean" with "legion", alluding to this bible passage.
  • It is quoted in William Peter Blatty's novel, The Exorcist.
  • It is the title for William Peter Blatty's second novel following The Exorcist.
  • "Legión me llamo" (Spanish for "my name is Legion") is a 2008 short story by Spanish writer Irving Perés.
  • The line is alluded to in John Dies at the End when the character Dave is confronted by a human, Justin, whose body is being controlled by a swarm of tiny, supernatural parasites. When Justin rejects his old name and Dave asks what he should call him instead, his reply is "Just call me 'Shitload.' Because there's a shitload of us in here."
  • In Gene Wolfe's book series "Book of the new sun", the necrophage autarch of a distant future planet earth calls himself "Legion"
  • In The Taking by Dean Koontz, an extraterrestrial being utters the lines "Yimaman see noygel, see refacull, see nod a bah, see naytoss, retee fo sellos. "My name is legion, is Lucifer, is Abbadon, is Satan, eater of souls."
  • In Simon R. Green's Deathstalker novels Legion is one of the antagonists that attacks Mistworld
  • In Tana French's novel In the Woods, Legion is the name detective Cassie Maddox gives to a former college student who was the reason she dropped out of school. In her telling of the incident Cassie identifies him as being a psychopath.

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