The Dunwich Horror - Influence

Influence

• Neil Gaiman's short story "I, Cthulhu" features a human slave/biographer referred to only as Whateley, possibly in reference to one of the characters in "The Dunwich Horror".
• Stoner/doom metal band Electric Wizard released a song on their 2007 album, Witchcult Today, entitled "Dunwich", based around the short story. Also, "We Hate You", from their 2000 album, Dopethrone, contains sound clips from the film.
• Lucio Fulci's 1980 movie City of the Living Dead is set in a town named Dunwich.
• Joseph Bruchac's children's horror novel, Whisper in the Dark has an albino homicidal serial killer named Wilbur Whatley that decapitated his own parents and was afraid of dogs.
• Under the title of "Dunwich Confidential," on his third album, Medallion Animal Carpet, Bob Drake and a collaborator retell the story of "The Dunwich Horror."
• A location in the 2008 Xbox 360/PS3/PC video game Fallout 3 is called "The Dunwich Building." It features a mini-story of a man searching for his father, who is in possession of an "old, bloodstained book made of weird leather", which may be the Necronomicon. Furthermore, a later downloadable add-on "Point Lookout" featured a quest involving a book with a similar purpose and equally strange name as the Necronomicon. The Krivbeknih, which can be destroyed in the basement of The Dunwich Building.
• Clock Tower: The First Fear features a similar premise where a wealthy recluse adopts orphans on the pretext of being unable to bear her own children.
• "Boojum" - a short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette - features a living, sentient space ship (a Boojum) named "Lavinia Whateley" by her pirate crew.