Leng - Other Mentions

Other Mentions

• In Stephen King's novel Needful Things, Mr. Gaunt gives Ace Merrill some cocaine said to be fabricated in "the plains of Leng", though no other explanations are given. The novel also contains other references to Lovecraft's work. It is mentioned again in his novel The Eyes of the Dragon, where it is described as the place where Flagg's spellbook was written, by a man named Alhazred. This implies that Flagg's spellbook is the Necronomicon itself.
• In Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Cycle Deities Novels the plains of Leng are supposed to be located in Earth's dreamland.
• In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Leng is a demi-plane, or pocket dimension, that exists adjacent to the world of Golarion. It closely resembles the Leng described in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
• In the CCG Magic: The Gathering, there are two cards named Library of Leng and Candles of Leng.
• In August Derleth's short story "The Thing That Walked on Wind", Two characters claim to be have been taken "...to Leng. lost Leng. Hidden Leng. Whence sprung Wind-Walker."
• In Kim Newman's Richard Jeperson short story "Soho Golem", an occultist and priest of Nyarlathotep holds the noble title "Lord Leaves of Leng".
• Leng is mentioned by an Iranian agent in "A Colder War" (1997) by Charles Stross.
• In Charles Stross's short story "Pimpf", the "Language of Leng" is inserted into the programming code of Neverwinter Nights in order to ensnare the souls of players.
• In The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Leng is mentioned as being the home of an order of cannibal priests.
• In Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Saga of the Renunciates", a character refers to a road that goes "across the Plateau of Leng" being "impassable and haunted by monsters"
• High On Fire's 2010 song "Frost Hammer" contains the lyric "Plateau of Leng".
• In the novella "Voluntary Committal", collected in 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill (writer), it appears in the song lyrics "The ants go marching two-by-two, They walked across the Leng plateau".
• In the Tales of Heresy collection of short stories, published by the Black Library, the Hall of Leng is mentioned in the short story "Blood Games". It is described as a location within the Imperial Palace in the Himalazia (Himalaya) region of Terra.
• In Alan Moore's Neonomicon the plateau of Leng is described as a projection into a higher mathematical space, which makes up the universe as observable by humans.