The word golem is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to refer to an artificial human-like creature, usually made from clay or mud and animated by mystical means. For example: "Legend has it that a golem was created to protect the Jewish community from their enemies."
He is still human, however deformed and psychotic, whereas the golem and the army of cinematic robots stretching back to "Metropolis" (1926) began as inert clay and metal.
The golem of Prague was central among them, serving as a metaphor for both rebirth and the process of generating a fictional character.
De procedure (1998; The Procedure) echoes the Jewish golem myth with the story of a scientist who creates life from crystals found in clay.
April P invents a story about herself in which she encounters this golem and has to come to terms with it.
Even in the story about the golem created by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel to protect the Prague ghetto, there are different versions of what happens: in one version, the golem runs amok because Rabbi Loew forgets to deactivate him on the Sabbath; in another version, the golem falls in love, and in yet another version the golem goes mad and runs away.
And in a way, that's what "Rosendale" is about: it's April P getting to the place where she is able to command the golem, rather than being afraid of it.
So the golem, like many other things, can be a subject of discussion.
Notice that we haven't mentioned the golem for a while.
The living-room windows are dark, and she can't see whether the golem is out there or not.
After months of this torture, the golem goes to April P's house.
Dara could have hauled the golem up here in her truck, and installed it on a barstool somehow — maybe with a hidden platform.
