Hellfire Club - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Literature

The Hellfire Club has appeared in numerous literary works:

• Jerome Klapka Jerome cites it in his 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat
• In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club is a criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga.
• Rachel Cosgrove Payes in her 1981 romance novel Satan's Mistress.
• Amanda Kent in her 1983 romance novel "The Ardent Protector".
• James Herbert in his 1995 novel The Ghosts of Sleath.
• Peter Straub in his 1995 novel The Hellfire Club.
• Kathy Reichs in her 2001 novel Fatal Voyage.
• Diana Gabaldon in her 1998 historical novella Lord John and the Hellfire Club.
• Lawrence Miles has referenced the Hellfire Club across several works. His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character.
• Xandra Bingley in her 2005 novel Bertie, May and Mrs Fish.
• Kage Baker in her 2007 short story "Hellfire at Twilight".
• Tom Knox in the 2009 novel The Genesis Secret.
• Lauren Willig in her 2009 novel The Temptation of the Night Jasmine.
• Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld "The Hellfire Club" in his epic comic-book series The Sandman.

Television

• The Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone" had Steed and Peel infiltrate a modern incarnation of the club whose pranks were expanding to destroy the government.
• In Blackadder the Third, Prince George makes numerous comments about spending time at 'The Naughty Hellfire Club'.
• In the Jeremy Brett – Edward Hardwicke The Return of Sherlock Holmes series episode "The Priory School", mention is made that ancestors of the Duke of Holdernesse, apart from being cattle thieves, may have provided a member of the Hellfire Club; however, no such reference is set forth in the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Dashwood's "Hellfire Club" makes many appearances in the anime Le Chevalier D'Eon.
• Mentioned by Frank Zappa on CNN television series Crossfire March 28, 1986.
• In Ghost Adventures Season 6 the team does a paranormal investigation of the Hellfire Caves.

Other

• The 1960 film The Hellfire Club starring Keith Michell and Peter Cushing depicts Dashwood's organization.
• The Japanese visual novel Animamundi: Dark Alchemist features the "Hell-Fire Club," and both Dashwood and the Earl of Sandwich make appearances during the course of the game.
• In the 1993 cyberpunk PC roleplaying game Bloodnet, the Plaza Hotel is host to a debauched private gathering called the Hellfire Club, having U.S. senators, the mayor and even vampires as members.
• The industrial metal band Electric Hellfire Club was formed in Wisconsin, USA, in 1991.
• The Hellfire Club is referred to in the 2011 video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.