From Beyond in Popular Culture

One of the more popular of H. P. Lovecraft's short stories, "From Beyond" has been referenced numerous time in popular culture. This page offers a non-comprehensive alphabetical list of these.
==Music==
*Manilla Road: The American heavy metal band adapted the story to a song of the same name featured in their 1990 album The Courts of Chaos.
*Massacre: The American death metal band released a largely Lovecraft-themed album of the same name in 1991.
*Nox Arcana: The dark ambient and Halloween-themed duo based their 2009 album Blackthorn Asylum on this story, with some twists of their own.
*Ripping Corpse: The death metal band's song "Beyond Humanity" is clearly directly inspired by the Lovecraft story and the Gordon film.
*Sleep: The American stoner doom metal band and Lovecraft devotees included a song of the same name on their classic 1992 album Sleep's Holy Mountain.
==Film & Television==
*Banshee Chapter: movie which features a similar plot involving the drug Dimethyltryptamine instead of Ultraviolet. At one point Lovecraft's short story is explicitly mentioned.
*From Beyond (1986): A 1986 film adaptation of the short story directed by Stuart Gordon; written by Dennis Paoli, Gordon and Brian Yuzna; and starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.
*Star Trek: The Next Generation: the episode "Phantasms" features inter-phasic parasites, undetectable under normal conditions, that feed off of cellular matter, and are perceived by Data as surrealistic objects during his dream program. Individuals experiencing elements of the world beyond our own through dreams and visions is a common theme in Lovecraftian literature.
*Stargate SG-1: in the episode "Sight Unseen", an alien device is accidentally activated that allows members of SG-1 to see, but not interact with, strange insect-like creatures who inhabit a dimension parallel to our own. Though originally confined to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the phenomenon of this "second sight" is also spread by touch. It quickly spreads to nearby populations, mostly by way of a "sight-infected" conspiracy theorist who stumbles upon a real government conspiracy concerning aliens and the SG-1. Parts of Colorado and Wyoming are "quarantined" until the process can be reversed. Hallucinogenic gas is used as cover-up story.
==Prose==
*The Jennifer Morgue: Charles Stross novel that features an electronic device known as a "Tillinghast resonator", which allows the user to see otherwise invisible entities.
*Time Loopers: "Academic Legacies" by CT Phipps had a Tillinghast Device used as a weapon of mass destruction against the Yith after it was modified with time travel technology.
==Video Games==
*Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy: features "Aura Beasts" that are seen using one of the psychic powers the main protagonist develops called "Aura View". This ability parallels the effects Crawford Tillinghast's device has on the characters in "From Beyond", who perceive creatures from another dimension as a result of using the device.
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