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* Kara Dalkey's Trilogy "Blood of the Goddess" where the titular goddess is the Medusa whose gaze turns people into stone.

* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Book of Amber]]'' series, one of the characters is turned to stone, and serves a coatrack for much of the series.

* In ''Ares Express'' by [[Ian McDonald]], decadent rich people buy furniture made from children locked into a suit that keeps them alive but paralyzed in the desired position: the novel implies that this is irreversible.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', {{spoiler|Aurora, one of the Queens of the Summer Court, transferred magical power into a person and then turned her to stone to keep the magic from being detected by anyone else. She gets better.}}