In Popular Culture
- Tim Powers' novel Earthquake Weather is partially set in the house.
- The song 'Mrs Winchester' by Dog Ears is based on the story of the Winchester Mystery house, with lyrics such as "Keep building your house Mrs Winchester/A place for my brothers to rest/For they fell one and all with the mark of your name/On the bullets that tore through their flesh"
- Referenced in science fiction TV show Babylon 5, season 4, episode 13, "Rumors, bargains and lies". Londo mentions Winchester mansion as an example of how hard it is to understand humans.
- In issue 45 of D.C's 'Swamp Thing' Alan Moore penned a ghost story featuring a house based on the Winchester mansion. In Moore's story the 'Cambridge House' is haunted not only by the cowboys, Indians and suicide victims, but also a number of slain animals all killed by the rifles hammer.
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