- The Messenger, a short story by Algernon Blackwood
- The Messenger, poem by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Messenger, poem by Josef Svatopluk Machar
- Messengers, poem by Andrei Bely
- Messengers, lyrics by Florence Mary Bennett
- The Messengers (1913), a work by John Jeffery Farnol
- Numbers of periodicals can be abbreviated as Messenger or The Messenger