Character from Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
The gorgon who runs a garden-statue emporium in New Jersey — she turns people to stone with her gaze and has a grudge against Athena's children.
Medusa runs a roadside business in New Jersey turning tourists into garden statues. She has a particular hatred for Athena (who cursed her) and Athena's children, and she speaks about her victimhood with the practiced bitterness of someone who has rehearsed her grievance for three thousand years. Percy beheaded her during his first quest — using a reflective surface, the classic Perseus move — and mailed her head to Olympus in a shipping box as a power play that made the gods take notice. She reforms eventually, because Greek monsters always do, and she always opens a new garden emporium when she returns.
In disguise: a Middle Eastern woman in a headscarf and dark sunglasses, running 'Aunty Em's Garden Emporium.' Without disguise: green-scaled skin, fangs, and a head full of living snakes. Her gaze turns anyone who meets it to stone.
Also known as: Medusa, Aunty Em