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* "Desert Sands" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: In one scene, Eos reads aloud from ''Eothen''. The protagonist doesn't want to hear it because he doesn't want to think about the East, but he doesn't give that reason. She obliges and picks up ''Vathek'' next.
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* "Desert Sands" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: In one scene, Eos reads aloud from ''Eothen''. The protagonist doesn't want to hear it because he doesn't want to think about the East, but he doesn't give that as his reason. She obliges and and, unaware what bothers her companion, picks up ''Vathek'' next.
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* "Desert Sands" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: In one scene, Eos reads aloud from ''Eothen''. The protagonist doesn't want to hear it because he doesn't want to think about the East, but he doesn't give that reason. She obliges and picks up ''Vathek'' next.
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* * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Councilor Vay Hek's favored units are fast-growing Grineer clones called Ghouls.
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When ''Literature/{{Vathek}}'' is referenced in other works, it's usually through the name "Vathek". Also usually, anyone or anything called Vathek is not okay.
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When ''Literature/{{Vathek}}'' is referenced in other works, it's usually through the name "Vathek". Also usually, anyone "Vathek" indicating a bad person or anything called Vathek is not okay.a bad place. ''Vathek'' also was the first work in which ghouls live underground, something that didn't catch on until the idea was reused in "Literature/PickmansModel".
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* "Literature/PickmansModel": Like the ghouls in ''Vathek'', the ghouls in "Pickman's Model" live underground.
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When ''Literature/{{Vathek}}'' is referenced in other works, it's usually through the name "Vathek". Also usually, anyone or anything called Vathek is not okay.
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[[AC:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': The Vathek are a plague-turned vampiric species that hails from Strio (Saturn) and its moon Vona (Titan).
[[AC:Literature]]
* "Literature/{{The Ghoul|1934}}": The time period of the events is given to be "during the reign of the Caliph Vathek".
* ''The Giaour'' by Creator/LordByron: The eponymous Giaour is inspired by and named after his namesake in '"Vathek''.
* ''Mean Streets'': Many of the planets in the Mutter's Spiral are references to other fiction. One of these planets is Vathek II.
* ''Tono-Bungay'' by Creator/HGWells: Of all the books George Ponderevo mentions having read in his youth, he is most fond of ''Vathek''. Thinking of it affects him with deep nostalgia for his childhood reading sessions.
[[AC:Music]]
* One album by Luis Delgado, a Spanish musician that specializes in Arab-Andalusian music, is called ''Vathek''.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'': The heretek magos Vathek is obsessed with restoring life to dead tissue, for which purpose he has created the Sarcosan wave generator. In fact, Vathek's own long-deceased body is propelled by a Scarosan wave generator built into his torso.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''{{VideoGame/Skylanders}}: Spyro's Adventure'': The villain of the bonus level "Dragon's Peak" is a dragon usurper named Vathek.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'': In "[[Recap/ExtremeGhostbustersE4Deadliners Deadliners]]", the three horrifically malformed-looking villains are collectively known as the Vathek.
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[[AC:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': The Vathek are a plague-turned vampiric species that hails from Strio (Saturn) and its moon Vona (Titan).
[[AC:Literature]]
* "Literature/{{The Ghoul|1934}}": The time period of the events is given to be "during the reign of the Caliph Vathek".
* ''The Giaour'' by Creator/LordByron: The eponymous Giaour is inspired by and named after his namesake in '"Vathek''.
* ''Mean Streets'': Many of the planets in the Mutter's Spiral are references to other fiction. One of these planets is Vathek II.
* ''Tono-Bungay'' by Creator/HGWells: Of all the books George Ponderevo mentions having read in his youth, he is most fond of ''Vathek''. Thinking of it affects him with deep nostalgia for his childhood reading sessions.
[[AC:Music]]
* One album by Luis Delgado, a Spanish musician that specializes in Arab-Andalusian music, is called ''Vathek''.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'': The heretek magos Vathek is obsessed with restoring life to dead tissue, for which purpose he has created the Sarcosan wave generator. In fact, Vathek's own long-deceased body is propelled by a Scarosan wave generator built into his torso.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''{{VideoGame/Skylanders}}: Spyro's Adventure'': The villain of the bonus level "Dragon's Peak" is a dragon usurper named Vathek.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'': In "[[Recap/ExtremeGhostbustersE4Deadliners Deadliners]]", the three horrifically malformed-looking villains are collectively known as the Vathek.
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