House On The Rock - in Other Media

In Other Media

• In 1988, the Wisconsin State Journal published a four-part series on "The House on the Rock," which reporter Marv Balousek later expanded into a self-published book entitled House of Alex. According to Balousek, Jordan Sr. hired "drunks and bums" from the Madison street to help blast the rock. Balousek says that according to Sid Boyum these workers were sometimes paid with whiskey and sometimes by check, but that Alex Jordan Jr. destroyed the cancelled checks later to further a myth that he had personally built the house himself.
• The House on the Rock also appears in the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman. In the novel, the house is a portal into the mind of the Gods. In one of the rooms is the world's largest carousel, and the main characters ride the carousel's creatures and get transported into the mind of the "All-Father" a.k.a. Odin.
• The 10,000 Maniacs music video for "More Than This" was shot at The House on the Rock in 1997.
• The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable, a 2011 children's adventure novel by Dan Gutman, features a climactic final confrontation in the Infinity Room.