Popular Culture
- The novel Someday by Jackie French Koller (Orchard, 2002, ISBN 0-439-29317-0) is based on the eviction (1938) of the remaining residents of Enfield.
- The novel Stillwater by former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld (Harvest Books, 2003, ISBN 0-15-602723-2) depicts the flooding of the Swift River Valley and the creation of the reservoir through the eyes of the novel's 15-year-old protagonist, Jamieson Kooby.
- The children's picture book Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen is about the creating of the reservoir through the eyes of a young girl who lives in one of the towns "drowned" to provide water for Boston.
- The reservoir is featured as a prominent plot element and set in the 2003 movie Dreamcatcher, based on the Stephen King novel.
- H.P. Lovecraft, an American science fiction and horror writer, wrote "Dunwich Horror" and "The Color Out of Space", two short stories which took place in the valley before it was flooded for the reservoir.
- The fortyfifth issue of the comic series Tales of TMNT Vol. 2 entitled "Rocks" by Jim Lawson the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Donatello recites a tale of the Quabbin River flood and are attacked by monsters that draw heavily from Lovecraft stories.
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