The Great Race in Popular Culture
- Contemporary and correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft, Duane W. Rimel penned a poetry cycle called "Dreams of Yith" which was published in The Fantasy Fan for July and Sept 1934. The cycle was revised by Lovecraft, by Clark Ashton Smith and also by Robert H. Barlow. Dreams of Yith can be found in August Derleth's anthology Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre.
- In the Futurama episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two", a creature resembling a purple Yithian can be seen as a would-be bride.
- In the computer game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the Great Race and its advanced technology play an important part in the story, and appear in the very end of the game. Their purpose in the game is expanded to a greater level of detail if the player is able to attain an "A" as his final score.
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets released an album based on "The Shadow Out of Time" called "The Shadow Out of Tim" which naturally features the Yithians.
- German heavy metal band Rage have done 2 songs featuring the Great Race, both appearing on their 1995 album Black in Mind. The 2 songs are titled "Shadow Out of Time" and "In a Nameless Time".
- In The 4400 episode "Wake Up Call", Tess Doerner bases her description of the future on the city of the Great Race as described in "The Shadow Out of Time."
- In May 2006, special tournaments were held for the Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game where the winners were pitted against a special, overpowered deck featuring the Yithians as played by the tournament organizer.
- In "To Mars and Providence", the Martians from The War of the Worlds are given the psychic attributes of the Great Race.
- In the short film Casting Call of Cthulhu by writer/director Joseph Nanni, a Yithian named Gary Gribstock auditions for a role in a film inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
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