Wormwood

Wormwood may refer to:

Places

• Wormwood Scrubs, an open space in the Hammersmith area of West London
• Wormwood Street, in the City of London

Plants

Common name for several plants, including:

• Various plants of the genus Artemisia, particularly:
  • Artemisia absinthium, grande wormwood or absinthe wormwood
  • Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood or annual wormwood
  • Artemisia herba-alba, white wormwood, the wormwood of the Bible
  • Artemisia pontica, Roman wormwood
  • Artemisia vulgaris, common wormwood
• Other plants
  • Roman wormwood, Ambrosia artemisiifolia
  • Wormwood senna, Senna artemisioides

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, a comic book series by Ben Templesmith
• Chronicles of Wormwood, a comic book miniseries by Garth Ennis from Avatar Press

Fictional entities

• Wormwood, a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
• Matilda Wormwood, the title character of the children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Miss Wormwood, a minor character in Calvin and Hobbes
• Mr. Wormwood, a fictional character in the British book Matilda, by Roald Dahl, and lead character in the film based on the book
• Mrs Wormwood, a character in the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures: "Invasion of the Bane", who reappeared in Enemy of the Bane
• Wormwood Deathship, described in the Abarat books by Clive Barker

Films and television

• Wormwood (TV series), a Canadian and Australian children's television program
• Wyrmwood, a 2014 horror film by Kiah Roache-Turner

Literature

• Wormwood (Bible), also called Apsinthos in the Book of Revelation, a star that falls upon Earth and poisons a third part of the waters
• Wormwood (book), a book of short horror stories by Poppy Z. Brite
• Wormwood (G. P. Taylor), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor
• Wormwood, a collection of science fiction stories by Terry Dowling
• Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli

Periodicals

• Wormwood (magazine), a magazine of literature and literary criticism
• Wormwood Review, a literary magazine published from 1959 to 1999

Music

Groups

• Wormwood, a side-project band featuring two members of Doomriders

Albums

• Wormwood (Marduk album), 2009
• Wormwood (moe. album), 2003
• Wormwood (The Acacia Strain album), 2010
• Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible, a 1998 album by The Residents

Songs

• "Wormwood", a song by Callisto
• "Wormwood", a song by Tristania
• "Wormwood", a song by Snowman
• "Wormwood", a song by Michale Graves
• "Wormwood", a song by Fozzy
• Wormwood Live, a 1999 live album by the Residents
• "Wormwood", a song by Close Your Eyes

Computers and technology

• Wormwood (computer virus), a proof of concept computer virus infecting FreeBSD systems, perhaps the first published virus for this OS

Institutions

• HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a prison in West London