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The Fourth Crusade is depicted in Poul Anderson's novel There Will Be Time from the point of view of a 20th Century time-traveller who saves the life of a Byzantine girl during the carnage and falls in love with her.
Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino begins shortly after the Sack of Constantinople.
The second volume of Judith Tarr's trilogy The Hound and the Falcon—titled The Golden Horn—also depicts the Fourth Crusade and Sack, showing it from its prelude through the aftermath in a historical fiction/fantasy setting that captures elements of both the Latin and Greek sides of the conflict.
The Fourth Crusade, which lends the title to British Death Metal band Bolt Thrower's fourth album title The IVth Crusade, is the lyrical inspiration for the title track and the cover artwork is a painting from Eugène Delacroix, showing "The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople".
The events of the Fourth Crusade are the narrative focus of the 2011 video game The Cursed Crusade, albeit with some supernatural twists.
A unique, often humorous account of the Fourth Crusade is told in Nicole Galland's novel Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade (2008, Harper Perennial).
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