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* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'': The titular character is an artificial person made out of bread filled with bean paste (his head is made of bread, anyway... the rest of him is never explicitly explained).
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* ''Literature/BasLagCycle'': ''Literature/IronCouncil'' explores a magical discipline called "golemcrafting", wherein magicians channel power into anything that isn't living. Most of the Golems created are fairly standard (blade, flesh, metal, clay, wood), However the main character of Iron Council creates increasingly more fantastic golems some of the more memorable ones being: poison, light, dark, and time.
* The third ''Literature/BloodSword'' book has the Seven-in-one as the main boss to fight. This is a wooden statue that's initially slow and lumbering, but when killed it has a smaller statue inside. While each additional statue gets smaller and easier to kill, it's also increasingly quicker and deals progressively more damage. It takes seven kills to deal with this god-touched statue.
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* The legend of the Golem is at the background of Gustav Meyrink's ''Literature/TheGolemNovel'', although the golem that appears in the story is something much, much weirder.
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* Golems are a recurring foe in various ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' books, and they come in a variety of different flavors too.
** The most common of the bunch are rock golems (who sometimes gets referred to as Boulder Beasts), appearing in ''Literature/TheCitadelOfChaos'', ''Literature/TheForestOfDoom'', ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'' and several others. While they're strong due to being made of stone, they are however really slow, hence usually having around eight points in SKILL.
** ''Literature/CavernsOfTheSnowWitch'' has the Ice Demon, a golem made of ice, who is responsible for the titular witch being corrupted into a villainess. The player ''might'' get to battle this golem, but it's an optional fight they can avoid.
** ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' series has wood golems created from tables and chairs, which can obey their creator to attack anything on sight. A witch in the first book summons one of these on the players, while the fourth have the player themselves creating an illusion of a wood golem to attack the Archmage of Mampang.
** ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'' has a compulsory battle with a clay golem that can cause the player's weapons to be stuck into its body; failure to defeat the clay golem before getting stuck leads to the player being killed on the spot.
** One of the various MacGuffinGuardian enemies in ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'' is a plant golem made of overgrown vegetation in the cursed castle's underground dungeon.
** ''Literature/MasksOfMayhem'' has the EvilSorceress Morgana trying to awaken an army of invincible Golems, and the player hero, the King of Arion, must prevent the awakening from even happening.
** ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'' takes it to the extreme with the Treasure Golem, an animated pile of gold, silver and diamonds which comes to life and attack players in a cavern. Whatever happens, after the battle, ''DO NOT'' attempt to collect said treasure -- you will turn into a pile of living treasure yourself if you do.
** ''Literature/NightDragon'' has the usual rock golems and other stronger, tougher golems made of granite and marble.
** ''Literature/KnightsOfDoom'' has the strongest of the lot, an Iron Golem serving the forces of Chaos, which is a borderline HopelessBossFight because of its extremely high skill and life stat. Thankfully the battle can be avoided with an item collected earlier in the adventure.
* The legend of the Golem is at the background ofGustav Meyrink's ''Literature/TheGolemNovel'', although the golem that appears in the story is something much, much weirder.
** The most common of the bunch are rock golems (who sometimes gets referred to as Boulder Beasts), appearing in ''Literature/TheCitadelOfChaos'', ''Literature/TheForestOfDoom'', ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'' and several others. While they're strong due to being made of stone, they are however really slow, hence usually having around eight points in SKILL.
** ''Literature/CavernsOfTheSnowWitch'' has the Ice Demon, a golem made of ice, who is responsible for the titular witch being corrupted into a villainess. The player ''might'' get to battle this golem, but it's an optional fight they can avoid.
** ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' series has wood golems created from tables and chairs, which can obey their creator to attack anything on sight. A witch in the first book summons one of these on the players, while the fourth have the player themselves creating an illusion of a wood golem to attack the Archmage of Mampang.
** ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'' has a compulsory battle with a clay golem that can cause the player's weapons to be stuck into its body; failure to defeat the clay golem before getting stuck leads to the player being killed on the spot.
** One of the various MacGuffinGuardian enemies in ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'' is a plant golem made of overgrown vegetation in the cursed castle's underground dungeon.
** ''Literature/MasksOfMayhem'' has the EvilSorceress Morgana trying to awaken an army of invincible Golems, and the player hero, the King of Arion, must prevent the awakening from even happening.
** ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'' takes it to the extreme with the Treasure Golem, an animated pile of gold, silver and diamonds which comes to life and attack players in a cavern. Whatever happens, after the battle, ''DO NOT'' attempt to collect said treasure -- you will turn into a pile of living treasure yourself if you do.
** ''Literature/NightDragon'' has the usual rock golems and other stronger, tougher golems made of granite and marble.
** ''Literature/KnightsOfDoom'' has the strongest of the lot, an Iron Golem serving the forces of Chaos, which is a borderline HopelessBossFight because of its extremely high skill and life stat. Thankfully the battle can be avoided with an item collected earlier in the adventure.
* The legend of the Golem is at the background of
* ''Literature/IronCouncil'' explores a magical discipline called "golemcrafting", wherein magicians channel power into anything that isn't living. Most of the Golems created are fairly standard (blade, flesh, metal, clay, wood), However the main character of Iron Council creates increasingly more fantastic golems some of the more memorable ones being: poison, light, dark, and time.
* In the ''Literature/ProseEdda'', to assist their champion Hrungnir in his appointed duel with Thor, the giants of Jotunheim form an artificial giant from clay and bring him to life by putting a mare's heart into his chest (as this is the largest heart they can find). Unfortunately, the titanic creature, which is called Mökkurkalfi, is also a coward, and is dispatched by Thor's servant Thjalfi with relative ease.
* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Caleb discovers how to carve children out of wood from the wizard tree and magic them to life. When Oscar finds out, he thinks that his undiagnosed autism is because he's a golem. [[spoiler:He's not, but the sick kids from Asteri are. Caleb sold over fifty golem children to rich parents, with the pitch that they would never get sick and never suffer. Unfortunately, the spells he used start to wear off and conflict with each other, causing the children to suffer a number of bizarre ailments, including blindness and deafness, the inability to eat, and IdentityAmnesia. Oscar treats the children with a concoction that will help the spells work better with each other, but he doesn't know if it will eventually stop working.]]
* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Caleb discovers how to carve children out of wood from the wizard tree and magic them to life. When Oscar finds out, he thinks that his undiagnosed autism is because he's a golem. [[spoiler:He's not, but the sick kids from Asteri are. Caleb sold over fifty golem children to rich parents, with the pitch that they would never get sick and never suffer. Unfortunately, the spells he used start to wear off and conflict with each other, causing the children to suffer a number of bizarre ailments, including blindness and deafness, the inability to eat, and IdentityAmnesia. Oscar treats the children with a concoction that will help the spells work better with each other, but he doesn't know if it will eventually stop working.]]
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': Zelgadis is considered part-golem due to a curse. This is a bit odd, since Naga (the Serpent) makes and discards golems with impunity. They ''are'' occasionally implied to have free will to a degree (one of them even falls in love with the magical construct it was supposed to be fighting), which only increases the oddness.
* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': One of the main characters is a golem named [[YouAreNumberSix Two]]. She was created from clay that was transmuted into flesh, and is indistinguishable from a human except for the three runes on her forehead. Two was declared free when her creator died, except she was created with no desire other than [[HappinessInSlavery to do as she's told]]... which led to some horrific abuses before she was befriended by the rest of the cast. Part of her CharacterDevelopment has been to develop her own interests and desires.
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* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': One of the main characters is a golem named [[YouAreNumberSix Two]]. She was created from clay that was transmuted into flesh, and is indistinguishable from a human except for the three runes on her forehead. Two was declared free when her creator died, except she was created with no desire other than [[HappinessInSlavery to do as she's told]]... which led to some horrific abuses before she was befriended by the rest of the cast. Part of her CharacterDevelopment has been to develop her own interests and desires.
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series has the ''gholam'', essentially vampiric [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000s]] with [[AntiMagic invulnerability to magic]] and [[NighInvulnerability pretty much everything else]]. [[OhCrap Yeah]]. They unnerved the ''Dark Side'' so much that only six were ever made, and only one is known to still exist in the present day.
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue to the early Soviet Union, where native supernatural beings are on the wane as dead "Angels" [[OurAngelsAreDifferent - alien humanoids that are a 1000 feet tall and made of living stone]] crash to earth. It was the influence of these Angels that started the nation, the Vlast, and the Angels's stone flesh is a versatile material. Among the usage, is the creation of the mudjhik. These are large statues often the color of rust and clotted blood with the spine and brain of an animal implanted inside. Mudhjik's are untiring, as strong as giants and [[NighInvulnerable far more damage resistant]] - needing at least a mortar shell to injure. To control a mudhjik, a handler with an head implant of angel flesh establishes a telepathic rapport with its animal brain.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue to the early Soviet Union, where native supernatural beings are on the wane as dead "Angels" [[OurAngelsAreDifferent - alien humanoids that are a 1000 feet tall and made of living stone]] crash to earth. It was the influence of these Angels that started the nation, the Vlast, and the Angels's stone flesh is a versatile material. Among the usage, is the creation of the mudjhik. These are large statues often the color of rust and clotted blood with the spine and brain of an animal implanted inside. Mudhjik's are untiring, as strong as giants and [[NighInvulnerable far more damage resistant]] - needing at least a mortar shell to injure. To control a mudhjik, a handler with an head implant of angel flesh establishes a telepathic rapport with its animal brain.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
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* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Caleb discovers how to carve children out ''Literature/WayOfTheTiger'': One of wood from your enemies is Everyman. This is the wizard tree and magic them to life. When Oscar finds out, he thinks that his undiagnosed autism is because he's a golem. [[spoiler:He's not, but the sick kids from Asteri are. Caleb sold over fifty implacable golem children bodyguard of the Usurper that's been sent to rich parents, hunt you down. Everyman requires being killed 100 times to finally be put down.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** The superpowered Charmer has several already-prepared charms she carries with her; one is a 'golem charm' that she has apparently used in self-defense class.
** Eldritch (Caitlin Bardue, [[GenderBender formerly Erik Mahren]]) is a former member of the academy's weapon range crew turned into something called an 'artificer', essentially a (still largely human-looking) golem with thepitch potential to become the [[UltimateBlacksmith perfect magic-item crafting]] EmotionlessGirl slave for whoever manages to get the proper tattoos on her body. Much of her story revolves around either stopping someone who was trying to enslave her, or trying to figure out how to do the job herself and thereby retain her independence, which no other Artificer had ever done. She managed to do it just before Christmas Break for 2006 (in-story); [[NoodleIncident how she did it]] [[AnachronicOrder was a mystery]] until the story [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/737-ashes-and-steel "Ashes and Steel"]] was published in 2016.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the ''gholam'', essentially vampiric [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000s]] with [[AntiMagic invulnerability to magic]] and [[NighInvulnerability pretty much everything else]]. [[OhCrap Yeah]]. They unnerved the ''Dark Side'' so much thatthey would never get sick only six were ever made, and never suffer. Unfortunately, only one is known to still exist in the spells he used start present day.
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue towear off the early Soviet Union, where native supernatural beings are on the wane as dead "Angels" -- [[OurAngelsAreDifferent alien humanoids that are 1000 feet tall and conflict made of living stone]] -- crash to earth. It was the influence of these Angels that started the nation, the Vlast, and the Angels's stone flesh is a versatile material. Among the usage, is the creation of the mudjhik. These are large statues often the color of rust and clotted blood with each other, causing the children to suffer a number of bizarre ailments, including blindness spine and deafness, the inability to eat, brain of an animal implanted inside. Mudhjik's are untiring, as strong as giants and IdentityAmnesia. Oscar treats the children [[NighInvulnerable far more damage resistant]] - needing at least a mortar shell to injure. To control a mudhjik, a handler with a concoction that will help the spells work better head implant of angel flesh establishes a telepathic rapport with each other, but he doesn't know if it will eventually stop working.]]its animal brain.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** The superpowered Charmer has several already-prepared charms she carries with her; one is a 'golem charm' that she has apparently used in self-defense class.
** Eldritch (Caitlin Bardue, [[GenderBender formerly Erik Mahren]]) is a former member of the academy's weapon range crew turned into something called an 'artificer', essentially a (still largely human-looking) golem with the
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the ''gholam'', essentially vampiric [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000s]] with [[AntiMagic invulnerability to magic]] and [[NighInvulnerability pretty much everything else]]. [[OhCrap Yeah]]. They unnerved the ''Dark Side'' so much that
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue to
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
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* The second installment in ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', aptly named ''The Eye of the Golem'', features golems being used against the setting's {{Magocracy}}.
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* ''Literature/TheAlchemyWar'': Golems feature prominently, where the Dutch and their Brasswork Throne rules most of the world on account of their {{Magitek}} developments from alchemy, with their control over "clakkers" (their version of golem) being a prominent part of their success.
* "Literature/BanditsInYourGrocersFreezer": The market holds a meeting to brainstorm how to get rid of the bandits encamping in the freezer section. David recommends speaking to a rabbi to have a golem made, but Pete shoots it down. Then at the end [[spoiler: Rabbi Levine arrives, [[TheCavalryArrivesLate after Pete already killed the bandits]], with a golem riding in the passenger seat of his car]].
* ''Literature/BasLagCycle'': ''Literature/IronCouncil'' explores a magical discipline called "golemcrafting", wherein magicians channel power into anything that isn't living. Most of the Golems created are fairly standard (blade, flesh, metal, clay, wood), However the main character of Iron Council creates increasingly more fantastic golems some of the more memorable ones being: poison, light, dark, and time.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Bad guys make multiple fighting golems in the series, from material such as mud or steel.
* The ''Changeling'' trilogy by Creator/SeanWilliams features creatures referred to as "golems". They're EnergyBeings.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'': Two large stone golems guard the shrine of [[DishingOutDirt Tarephen]]. [[ActionGirl Nihal]] must destroy the central letter on their foreheads in order to beat them down.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Golems follow the classic Jewish model closely -- they're made of clay, they're animated by a ''shem'' in their heads, and they tend to have Yiddish names like Dorfl, Dibbuk and Shmata. They're LostTechnology of a sort, relics from ancient civilizations that have been repurposed by modern cultures as laborers, since golems have [[HappinessInSlavery an innate need to serve a purpose]]. They can be {{Absurdly Dedicated Worker}}s, too -- one literally did nothing but stand in the dark and work a water pump for 240 years, while another is a messenger who has been waiting ''thousands'' of years for history to repeat so he can deliver a missive. Golems are very strong, immortal unless destroyed, can repair themselves with new clay and a kiln, originally [[TheSpeechless could not speak]] (some carried around little chalkboards to communicate), and have [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing fiery eyes]] that some people find disconcerting. Narratively they serve as fantasy stand-ins for robots, complete with a version of [[ThreeLawsCompliant the Three Laws of Robotics]] and suffering FantasticRacism from humans who find them creepy or [[JobStealingRobot competition]], but golems are usually nonthreatening, and at most will cause problems by [[ExactWords following orders to the letter]], which might be [[BotheringByTheBook a mild form of rebellion]]. As of ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', the golems are slowly, steadily and nonviolently emancipating themselves - one golem was declared a free citizen, who worked and saved until he could afford to buy and free another golem, then the two of them worked and saved to buy a third, and so on. ''Literature/GoingPostal'' reveals there is a Golem Trust run by sympathetic humans who help the golems manage their finances, get hired as fairly-paid laborers, and locate others of their kind to emancipate.
* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'': Talus, the "yron page". No points for guessing his names inspiration, though unlike that one, Talus is man sized, though still capable of pushing giants off cliffs and beating down an entire castle with his EpicFlail.
* ''Literature/TheGolemAndTheJinni'': Chava is a golem crafted in Poland and migrates to turn of the century New York where she befriends the djinn Ahmad.
* The ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'' short story "Of Blood, Of Clay" by James A. Moore (published in ''Hellboy: Odder Jobs'') features a golem created by Jewish refugees during World War II that is rampaging around modern Germany. Either it doesn't know that the Nazis were defeated decades ago, or it simply doesn't care.
* ''Literature/HowToSellAHauntedHouse'': In the climax, the BigBad causes the various dolls and puppets that make up the collection in the Haunted House of the book to come to life and combine into a living, screaming golem monster.
* ''Literature/KilnPeople'': The essential premise is that technology has advanced to the point of allowing the creation of golems, giving life to clay models holding copies of the minds of those they are modeled after.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Last Olympian'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:most of the statues in New York and quite a few elsewhere are actually golems built by Daedalus, requiring only a codephrase to turn them into an instant army]].
* ''Literature/TheReluctantKing'': A tale narrated by Jorian features a king in dire need of a general being gifted a Golem general by a witch who wants to be acknowledged for her powers. Then the other army shows up with a Golem general, but both are such huge perfectionists that they stop their armies every five steps to make sure they're perfectly in order, and by the time they're about to engage in combat a sudden downpour melts the clay golems.
* In the Creator/CoryDoctorow story "Return to Pleasure Island", golems (although the actual word is never used) are a sentient race of clay giants who reproduce by breaking off parts of themselves, usually the thumb, that then grow. A right thumb child is strong, even for a golem. A left thumb child is smarter. A child of the tongue is... a mistake.
* ''Literature/TheSorcererKingOfDestructionAndTheGolemOfTheBarbarianQueen'': Golems are regularly used in-universe as weapons of warfare or guardians, and they typically come in two varieties: Heavy-Class Golems, which are massive stone giants, and Light-Class Golems, which resemble slender humanoids. The protagonist kicks off the story by creating a Light-Class Golem for a companion, and she quickly begins to display an unusual level of strength and durability for her class of golem.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': The thunderclasts are giant dog-like stone monsters, created by a Voidspren possessing part of the ground and just pulling itself out of the surrounding rock.
* ''Literature/SweepTheStoryOfAGirlAndHerMonster'': Nan's char, a palm-sized clump of soot that always stays warm, and also serves as [[TragicKeepsake her last momento of the Sweep]], comes to life and saves her from being burned alive in a chimney. Nan deduces that the char is a golem made of soot, after reading about it in a bestiary she finds in the House of a Hundred Chimney's library.
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay'': Bess is a superhumanly strong golem made from a suit of armour. Originally Bess was an 11 year old, aristocrat girl who was murdered by her uncle Crake (a demonologist who had been possessed). Horrified by what he had done, Crake bound Bess's soul to the closest viable thing at hand, which was the suit of armour. Now Bess is little more than a toddler mentally and spends her days as the team muscle when not kept in storage. At the end of the series, it turns out that the ruler of the land has an army of similar but more powerful golems at his beck and call.
* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': One of the main characters is a golem named [[YouAreNumberSix Two]]. She was created from clay that was transmuted into flesh, and is indistinguishable from a human except for the three runes on her forehead. Two was declared free when her creator died, except she was created with no desire other than [[HappinessInSlavery to do as she's told]]... which led to some horrific abuses before she was befriended by the rest of the cast. Part of her CharacterDevelopment has been to develop her own interests and desires.
* ''Literature/TheresMagicInBread'': Ruth the baker inadvertently builds a golem [[spoiler:out of leftover bread and cookie dough, having shaped the dough into a humanoid form and baked it as a way to express her grief when her father is murdered at the hands of the violently anti-Semitic Polizia]]. She's shocked that the creature is alive (or at least animate), considering she's not a rabbi and the existence of golems is supposedly a folktale.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series has the ''gholam'', essentially vampiric [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000s]] with [[AntiMagic invulnerability to magic]] and [[NighInvulnerability pretty much everything else]]. [[OhCrap Yeah]]. They unnerved the ''Dark Side'' so much that only six were ever made, and only one is known to still exist in the present day.
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue to the early Soviet Union, where native supernatural beings are on the wane as dead "Angels" [[OurAngelsAreDifferent - alien humanoids that are a 1000 feet tall and made of living stone]] crash to earth. It was the influence of these Angels that started the nation, the Vlast, and the Angels's stone flesh is a versatile material. Among the usage, is the creation of the mudjhik. These are large statues often the color of rust and clotted blood with the spine and brain of an animal implanted inside. Mudhjik's are untiring, as strong as giants and [[NighInvulnerable far more damage resistant]] - needing at least a mortar shell to injure. To control a mudhjik, a handler with an head implant of angel flesh establishes a telepathic rapport with its animal brain.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
* ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'': The {{Living Toy|s}} protagonist is technically a golem.
* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Caleb discovers how to carve children out of wood from the wizard tree and magic them to life. When Oscar finds out, he thinks that his undiagnosed autism is because he's a golem. [[spoiler:He's not, but the sick kids from Asteri are. Caleb sold over fifty golem children to rich parents, with the pitch that they would never get sick and never suffer. Unfortunately, the spells he used start to wear off and conflict with each other, causing the children to suffer a number of bizarre ailments, including blindness and deafness, the inability to eat, and IdentityAmnesia. Oscar treats the children with a concoction that will help the spells work better with each other, but he doesn't know if it will eventually stop working.]]
* "Literature/BanditsInYourGrocersFreezer": The market holds a meeting to brainstorm how to get rid of the bandits encamping in the freezer section. David recommends speaking to a rabbi to have a golem made, but Pete shoots it down. Then at the end [[spoiler: Rabbi Levine arrives, [[TheCavalryArrivesLate after Pete already killed the bandits]], with a golem riding in the passenger seat of his car]].
* ''Literature/BasLagCycle'': ''Literature/IronCouncil'' explores a magical discipline called "golemcrafting", wherein magicians channel power into anything that isn't living. Most of the Golems created are fairly standard (blade, flesh, metal, clay, wood), However the main character of Iron Council creates increasingly more fantastic golems some of the more memorable ones being: poison, light, dark, and time.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Bad guys make multiple fighting golems in the series, from material such as mud or steel.
* The ''Changeling'' trilogy by Creator/SeanWilliams features creatures referred to as "golems". They're EnergyBeings.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'': Two large stone golems guard the shrine of [[DishingOutDirt Tarephen]]. [[ActionGirl Nihal]] must destroy the central letter on their foreheads in order to beat them down.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Golems follow the classic Jewish model closely -- they're made of clay, they're animated by a ''shem'' in their heads, and they tend to have Yiddish names like Dorfl, Dibbuk and Shmata. They're LostTechnology of a sort, relics from ancient civilizations that have been repurposed by modern cultures as laborers, since golems have [[HappinessInSlavery an innate need to serve a purpose]]. They can be {{Absurdly Dedicated Worker}}s, too -- one literally did nothing but stand in the dark and work a water pump for 240 years, while another is a messenger who has been waiting ''thousands'' of years for history to repeat so he can deliver a missive. Golems are very strong, immortal unless destroyed, can repair themselves with new clay and a kiln, originally [[TheSpeechless could not speak]] (some carried around little chalkboards to communicate), and have [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing fiery eyes]] that some people find disconcerting. Narratively they serve as fantasy stand-ins for robots, complete with a version of [[ThreeLawsCompliant the Three Laws of Robotics]] and suffering FantasticRacism from humans who find them creepy or [[JobStealingRobot competition]], but golems are usually nonthreatening, and at most will cause problems by [[ExactWords following orders to the letter]], which might be [[BotheringByTheBook a mild form of rebellion]]. As of ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', the golems are slowly, steadily and nonviolently emancipating themselves - one golem was declared a free citizen, who worked and saved until he could afford to buy and free another golem, then the two of them worked and saved to buy a third, and so on. ''Literature/GoingPostal'' reveals there is a Golem Trust run by sympathetic humans who help the golems manage their finances, get hired as fairly-paid laborers, and locate others of their kind to emancipate.
* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'': Talus, the "yron page". No points for guessing his names inspiration, though unlike that one, Talus is man sized, though still capable of pushing giants off cliffs and beating down an entire castle with his EpicFlail.
* ''Literature/TheGolemAndTheJinni'': Chava is a golem crafted in Poland and migrates to turn of the century New York where she befriends the djinn Ahmad.
* The ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'' short story "Of Blood, Of Clay" by James A. Moore (published in ''Hellboy: Odder Jobs'') features a golem created by Jewish refugees during World War II that is rampaging around modern Germany. Either it doesn't know that the Nazis were defeated decades ago, or it simply doesn't care.
* ''Literature/HowToSellAHauntedHouse'': In the climax, the BigBad causes the various dolls and puppets that make up the collection in the Haunted House of the book to come to life and combine into a living, screaming golem monster.
* ''Literature/KilnPeople'': The essential premise is that technology has advanced to the point of allowing the creation of golems, giving life to clay models holding copies of the minds of those they are modeled after.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Last Olympian'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:most of the statues in New York and quite a few elsewhere are actually golems built by Daedalus, requiring only a codephrase to turn them into an instant army]].
* ''Literature/TheReluctantKing'': A tale narrated by Jorian features a king in dire need of a general being gifted a Golem general by a witch who wants to be acknowledged for her powers. Then the other army shows up with a Golem general, but both are such huge perfectionists that they stop their armies every five steps to make sure they're perfectly in order, and by the time they're about to engage in combat a sudden downpour melts the clay golems.
* In the Creator/CoryDoctorow story "Return to Pleasure Island", golems (although the actual word is never used) are a sentient race of clay giants who reproduce by breaking off parts of themselves, usually the thumb, that then grow. A right thumb child is strong, even for a golem. A left thumb child is smarter. A child of the tongue is... a mistake.
* ''Literature/TheSorcererKingOfDestructionAndTheGolemOfTheBarbarianQueen'': Golems are regularly used in-universe as weapons of warfare or guardians, and they typically come in two varieties: Heavy-Class Golems, which are massive stone giants, and Light-Class Golems, which resemble slender humanoids. The protagonist kicks off the story by creating a Light-Class Golem for a companion, and she quickly begins to display an unusual level of strength and durability for her class of golem.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': The thunderclasts are giant dog-like stone monsters, created by a Voidspren possessing part of the ground and just pulling itself out of the surrounding rock.
* ''Literature/SweepTheStoryOfAGirlAndHerMonster'': Nan's char, a palm-sized clump of soot that always stays warm, and also serves as [[TragicKeepsake her last momento of the Sweep]], comes to life and saves her from being burned alive in a chimney. Nan deduces that the char is a golem made of soot, after reading about it in a bestiary she finds in the House of a Hundred Chimney's library.
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay'': Bess is a superhumanly strong golem made from a suit of armour. Originally Bess was an 11 year old, aristocrat girl who was murdered by her uncle Crake (a demonologist who had been possessed). Horrified by what he had done, Crake bound Bess's soul to the closest viable thing at hand, which was the suit of armour. Now Bess is little more than a toddler mentally and spends her days as the team muscle when not kept in storage. At the end of the series, it turns out that the ruler of the land has an army of similar but more powerful golems at his beck and call.
* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': One of the main characters is a golem named [[YouAreNumberSix Two]]. She was created from clay that was transmuted into flesh, and is indistinguishable from a human except for the three runes on her forehead. Two was declared free when her creator died, except she was created with no desire other than [[HappinessInSlavery to do as she's told]]... which led to some horrific abuses before she was befriended by the rest of the cast. Part of her CharacterDevelopment has been to develop her own interests and desires.
* ''Literature/TheresMagicInBread'': Ruth the baker inadvertently builds a golem [[spoiler:out of leftover bread and cookie dough, having shaped the dough into a humanoid form and baked it as a way to express her grief when her father is murdered at the hands of the violently anti-Semitic Polizia]]. She's shocked that the creature is alive (or at least animate), considering she's not a rabbi and the existence of golems is supposedly a folktale.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series has the ''gholam'', essentially vampiric [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000s]] with [[AntiMagic invulnerability to magic]] and [[NighInvulnerability pretty much everything else]]. [[OhCrap Yeah]]. They unnerved the ''Dark Side'' so much that only six were ever made, and only one is known to still exist in the present day.
* The ''Literature/WolfhoundEmpire'' novels by Peter Higgins has the mudjhik. The stories are set in a fantasy analogue to the early Soviet Union, where native supernatural beings are on the wane as dead "Angels" [[OurAngelsAreDifferent - alien humanoids that are a 1000 feet tall and made of living stone]] crash to earth. It was the influence of these Angels that started the nation, the Vlast, and the Angels's stone flesh is a versatile material. Among the usage, is the creation of the mudjhik. These are large statues often the color of rust and clotted blood with the spine and brain of an animal implanted inside. Mudhjik's are untiring, as strong as giants and [[NighInvulnerable far more damage resistant]] - needing at least a mortar shell to injure. To control a mudhjik, a handler with an head implant of angel flesh establishes a telepathic rapport with its animal brain.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Golems are made from various things. They have different talents, and can become real. Grundy Golem is rude and Silicia can alter a bit of reality. Also Grundy had a child, Surprise.
* ''Literature/{{Threadbare}}'': The {{Living Toy|s}} protagonist is technically a golem.
* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Caleb discovers how to carve children out of wood from the wizard tree and magic them to life. When Oscar finds out, he thinks that his undiagnosed autism is because he's a golem. [[spoiler:He's not, but the sick kids from Asteri are. Caleb sold over fifty golem children to rich parents, with the pitch that they would never get sick and never suffer. Unfortunately, the spells he used start to wear off and conflict with each other, causing the children to suffer a number of bizarre ailments, including blindness and deafness, the inability to eat, and IdentityAmnesia. Oscar treats the children with a concoction that will help the spells work better with each other, but he doesn't know if it will eventually stop working.]]
