Adaptations
Issue #2 of Pacific Comics "Berni Wrightson's Master of the Macabre" features an illustrated version of "Cool Air" drawn by Berni Wrightson.
The story "Baby... It's Cold Inside!" in EC Comics' Vault of Horror #17 is an unofficial adaptation of "Cool Air."
"Cool Air" has been adapted for film or television at least three times: as a 1971 episode of Night Gallery directed by Jeannot Szwarc with a teleplay by Rod Serling (where the narrator was changed to the daughter of a MIT colleague of Muñoz's, in order to accommodate a romantic plot for the story),; as "The Cold", directed by Shusuke Kaneko from a screenplay by Brent V. Friedman, it was part of the 1994 Lovecraftian omnibus film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead; and as a 50-minute black-and-white version.
Cool Air, directed by Bryan Moore was released in 1999 as part of the H.P. Lovecraft Collection. In the film, the nameless narrator of the story is replaced by Randolph Carter.
The 2007 horror/splatter film Chill directed by Serdge Rodnunsky is also loosely based on "Cool Air."
DC Comics' Elseworlds three-part story, "Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham," adapted the character of Mr. Freeze into a role inspired by Dr. Muñoz of "Cool Air."
Blue Hours Productions has done an adaptation of "Cool Air" for its revival of the classic radio series "Suspense", which will begin airing on Sirius XM Radio in Fall 2012. It features Adrienne Wilkinson & Daamen Krall, and was adapted by John C. Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes.
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