Black Maria, the 1991 novel by Diana Wynne Jones.

The phrase "Black Maria" occurs in the song "The Guns of Brixton" by the British punk band The Clash: You know it means no mercy/They caught him with a gun/No need for the Black Maria/Goodbye to the Brixton sun.

Black Maria, a cartoon collection by Charles Addams

The song "The Edison Museum" by They Might Be Giants uses the phrase "Black Maria": "Just outside the gate/I look into the courtyard,/Underneath a gathering thunderstorm./Through the iron bars/I see the Black Maria/Revolving slowly on its platform."

The song "Hang 'Em High" by My Chemical Romance contains the lyrics "The angels just cut out her tongue, call her Black Mariah"

The song "Afterhours" by The Sisters of Mercy contains the lyrics "One more night spent on your mirror, Black Maria, in your eyes / This stuff so strange and lonely, England fades away, In your eyes".

"Black Maria" was written on the side of the truck driven by the hero of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie.

The Black Maria was a three-unit experimental diesel-electric locomotive set fielded by the American Locomotive Company.

A Black Maria or Paddywagon, a vehicle used by the police to transport prisoners.

The Black Maria, a Canadian rock band.

Black Maria is usually pronounced using the archaic pronunciation Mariah, rhyming with 'pariah', and so sometimes appears as "Black Mariah". It may refer to:

The Sopwith Triplane of Canadian WWI ace Raymond Collishaw was named "Black Maria".

An all-black HH-3E Jolly Green Giant that was used during the Vietnam War by the CIA had the nickname "Black Maria".

"Black Maria", a song by Todd Rundgren.

"Big Black Mariah", a song by Tom Waits.

A card game Black Maria, also called Black Lady, is a British variant of Hearts, requiring rather different tactics. Passing is always to the person on the right, and a hand's first lead, rather than going to the 2♣, circulates normally round the table. Hearts may be led at any time apart from the first round (which gives an advantage to the player with the 2♥) and the scores are Q♠ 15, A♥ 5, K♥ 4, Q♥ 3, J♥ 2, with all other hearts one each.

The "Black Maria" film studio created by Thomas Edison. See Edison's Black Maria.