The poem features prominently in the plot of Douglas Adams’s novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.Cain’s crime novel Double Indemnity, Phyllis is described as the creature who came on board ship to shoot dice in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac quoted these lines when referring to Claudia: “Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man’s blood with cold”.
The narrator, Teddy, also speaks of how “The Ancient Mariner was sent an albatross … Noah was sent a dove”, while he himself was sent a crow. In Brian Keene’s novel The Conqueror Worms, the character Salty mentions that it is bad luck to kill an albatross.In Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha, in revealing to Nick that she devised a plan to get married to one of the college staff, remarks that “I wasn’t the albatross”.Let us know if we have missed any mentions! Literature: Some of the following poem mentions may be surprising, or perhaps not. Coleridge’s poem the Rime of the Ancient Mariner has been frequently associated and used in the context of popular cultural media throughout the ages.
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