THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

In art and entertainment

The philosopher's stone has been subject, inspiration, or plot feature of innumerable artistic works — novels, comics stories, movies, animations, and even musical compositions. It is also a popular item in many video games. The following is a very incomplete list.

Literature

Natural Magic (1558), by Giambattista della Porta
The Philosopher's Stone (1789), by Christoph Martin Wieland.[8] German fairy tale.
Hinzelmeier (1857), by Theodor Storm.[8] Romantic style German fairy tale.
Philosopher's Stone (1859), by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Trumpeter of Krakow (1928), by Eric P. Kelly.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), by Gabriel García Márquez.
The Philosopher's Stone (Colin Wilson book) (1971), by C. H. Wilson.
The Ogre Downstairs (1974), by Diana Wynne Jones.
The Alchemist (1988), by Paulo Coelho.
Foucault's Pendulum (1988), by Umberto Eco, where a character claims that the Stone is actually the Holy Grail.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), by J. K. Rowling (renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US; note also that when the stone is referred to in Latin in a Potter context, it is called lapis philosophi rather than philosophorum, i.e. "of the philosopher" instead of the original "of philosophers").
The Baroque Cycle trilogy (2003–2004), by Neal Stephenson, where it is used to explain an unusually heavy gold sample.
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (1995), by Max McCoy.
The Red Lion 1946, by Maria Szepes Hungary. Story of a mans journey through four centuries of lifetimes after acquiring the Philosopher's stone.
The Eight, by Katherine Neville.
The Alchemyst:the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (novel, 2007), by Michael Scott.