The Dunwich Horror in Popular Culture

As one of H. P. Lovecraft's most well-known tales, and considered by most to be one of the 'core' Mythos stories, "The Dunwich Horror" has inspired numerous works by other artists, and has simply been name-dropped in many others. This page offers a non-comprehensive alphabetical list of these.
==Games==
*Fallout franchise: 
**A location in Fallout 3 is called "The Dunwich Building." It features a mini-story of a man searching for his father, who is in possession of an "old, bloodstained book made of weird leather", which may be the Necronomicon; the man is found in front of an obelisk under the building, driven insane and turned into a feral ghoul.
**A location in Fallout 4 is called "Dunwich Borers". It is a mine owned by "Dunwich Borers LLC", and was used as a site for dark rituals and sacrifices.
* Fate/Grand Order: Japanese mobile game with a chapter which features a young albino girl named Lavinia Whateley.
==Film & Television==
*Armitage III: scriptwriter Chiaki Konaka reported being influenced by this story when writing the 1995 series. Among the signs of influence are the characters named Armitage and Lavinia Whateley, and a location variously spelled as Dunwich or "Danich" Hill.
*City of the Living Dead (1980): Lucio Fulci movie which is set in a town named Dunwich.
*Teen Beach Movie: children's film in which one of the protagonists is about to be sent to an "exclusive" Dunwich Preparatory School. This may possibly be intended as irony as Dunwich in "The Dunwich Horror" is a backwoods town.
==Music==
*Bob Drake: On his third album, Medallion Animal Carpet, Drake and a collaborator retell the story of "The Dunwich Horror" under the title "Dunwich Confidential".
*Electric Wizard: the stoner/doom metal band released a song on their 2007 album, Witchcult Today, entitled "Dunwich", based around the short story. Also, "We Hate You", from their 2000 album Dopethrone contains sound clips from the film.
*Iron Man: the doom metal band's 2013 album South of the Earth contains the song "Half Face/Thy Brother's Keeper (Dunwich Pt. 2"), which is based on the story.
*Lorelei: the symphonic deathcore act released a song named "The Dunwich Horror".
*Ningen Isu: the Japanese progressive metal band recorded a song "Dunwich no Kai" ("The Dunwich Horror") for their 1998 album Taihai Geijutsu-ten.
==Prose==
*"Boojum": Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's short story features a living, sentient space ship (a Boojum) named "Lavinia Whateley" by her pirate crew.
*"Nine Drowned Churches": Harry Turtledove short story set in Dunwich, England, which is eerily similar to the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, right down to the family names; the protagonist is also aware of the events of H. P. Lovecraft's story.
*Once Upon a Time in the Weird West: the final book in Edward M. Erdelac's Merkabah Rider series features the elder Whateley.
*Whisper in the Dark: Joseph Bruchac's children's horror novel has a homicidal albino serial killer named Wilbur Whatley that decapitated his own parents and was afraid of dogs.
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