Other Appearances
The town is also the setting of the loose film adaptation of Lovecraft's story, also called The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee. The town is also the setting of the 1999 direct-to-video movie Witchouse, although the town itself is never seen, as the entire movie takes place in a mansion in Dunwich.
The horror film City of the Living Dead, directed by the late Lucio Fulci, features a town called Dunwich, named as a tribute to Lovecraft.
Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game uses Dunwich as a setting, notably in H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich: Return to the Forgotten Village.
The video game The Bard's Tale features a town named Dunwich in which many occult events occur.
"The Sun Dog", a novella by Stephen King that appears in the 1990 collection Four Past Midnight, gives passing mention to "a fellow in Dunwich, Massachusetts, to whom Pop had once sold a so-called spirit trumpet for ninety dollars; the fellow had taken the trumpet to the Dunwich Cemetery and must have heard something exceedingly unpleasant, because he had been raving in a padded cell in Arkham for almost six years now, totally insane."
The town of Dunwych, spelled with a "y", is featured in season 3 of Seven Days as a fishing town in new England, in which the inhabitants are driven insane by a bioweapon dredged up from the bottom of the sea.
In Charles Stross' novel The Jennifer Morgue, a British spy (implied to be antithetical to the James Bond archetype of a spy) mentions that Dunwich is a "treaty zone" between human and alien forces.
In the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's audio drama adaptation, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror, a map of Dunwich (supposedly taken from the Miskatonic University archives by Henry Armitage's secretary, Edith) is included among the CD's supplemental materials.
The video game Fallout 3 features the Dunwich Building, the headquarters for a pre-war drill company. The drill site under the building has become the site of an occult ritual meant to raise a dead god.
Doom metal band Electric Wizard included a song called Dunwich on its album Witchcult Today
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a group whose works are heavily inspired by Lovecraft's writings, includes a song referencing the town, 'Going Down to Dunwich'.
The town and the events of 'The Dunwich Horror' feature in an expansion for the Lovecraftian boardgame, 'Arkham Horror'.
Spanish author Alberto López Aroca's short story "Al otro lado de Dunwich" (The Other Side of Dunwich) in his collection Los Espectros Conjurados is a prequel to The Dunwich Horror and August Derleth's The Lurker at the Threshold.
A Swedish death metal band Revolting has a song called "Hell in Dunwich".
The Secret World (MMORPG) also has areas and streets called Dunwich and Lovecraft Street in Kingsmouth.
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