Popular Culture
Patterson's book was the basis for the movies Bwana Devil in 1952 and The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996, with the incidents also used in 1959's Killers of Kilimanjaro. The names "The Ghost" and "The Darkness" were names given to the two man-eating lions.
The story of Patterson and the man-eating lions was also an inspiration for the book Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman, published in 2012.
The lions also appear as a difficulty to be overcome in the "Cape to Cairo" scenario of the video game Railroad Tycoon II.
The plot of the Willard Price book Lion Adventure was inspired by the man-eaters of Tsavo, where Hal and Roger Hunt are hired to deal with a man eating lion that's preying on rail road workers. At one point in the book, Hal recounts the original tale of Colonel Patterson.
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