Later Appearances
Robert M. Price has suggested that Kuttner, by giving the name "Abigail Prinn" to the villain of his short story "The Salem Horror", may have been suggesting that the Salem witch Abigail was a descendant of the Brussels sorcerer. In any case, Kuttner explicitly made use of De Vermis Mysteriis in his 1939 short story "The Invaders", in which disregard of the book's precautions ("the Pnakotic pentagon, the cabalistical signs of protection...") brings forth the horrors of the story's title--said to be described by Prinn as "the dwellers in the Hidden World".
In his short story "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" (1950), August Derleth includes De Vermis Mysteriis among a group of Cthulhu Mythos volumes discovered in a book catalog by his detective character Solar Pons--though in the context of the story, all the books turn out to be fictional.
Both Ludwig Prinn and the De Vermis Mysteriis are mentioned by name in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), as being connected to the Illuminati.
De Vermis Mysteriis is featured in a Lovecraftian story by horror writer Stephen King entitled "Jerusalem's Lot" (1978)—part of the Night Shift collection, wherein the main character, Charles, touches the book and releases a gigantic white worm, which was worshiped by the town's previous inhabitants. It is also implied that book is found by Mark and Susan in the novel/semi-sequel 'Salem's Lot. In a passage, Mark finds a book in the Marsten House and asks Susan to translate it for him. She doesn't know what it says, but she says it's in Latin, possibly referencing the book's title.
De Vermis Mysteriis also appears in the novel The Keep (1981) by F. Paul Wilson.
In Price's own "Wilbur Whateley Waiting" (1987), a character declares himself to be a descendant of both Ludvig and Abigail Prinn.
Prinn and his book both appear in Brian Lumley's 1987 short story "Lord of the Worms".
De Vermis Mysteriis also appears as a deadly tome in the 1992 video game Alone in the Dark.
The book is also referenced (as Des Vermis Mysteriis) in the 2004 movie Hellboy. It contains a description of the Ogdru Jahad, gods otherwise not connected to the Cthulhu mythos.
In Kim Newman's short story "The Gyspies in the Wood" (2005), Charles Beauregard, an agent of the Diogenes Club, mentions that he owns a copy of the book.
In Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon a copy of the De Vermis Mysteriis can be found while looking at the many books in library sections located at the back of Irina Boczow's office after returning to Budapest for the second time.
De Vermis Mysteriis is a song by Industrial Music act Flint Glass.
In the visual novel/anime/manga series Demonbane, De Vermis Mysteriis appears as the grimoire possessed by the lich-like sorcerer Tiberius.
The post-industrial Seattle-based band Rabbit Junk prominently feature the Lovecraftian Latin incantation in the song "Revenge of Julian Modely" to be found in their Project Nonagon Album.
Heavy metal band High on Fire's sixth album is titled De Vermis Mysteriis.
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