The Robert Cains brewery in Liverpool brews Cains Double Bock beer at 8 % abv, and the Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, produce a 5. 6 % abv Maibock.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

The popularity of Star Wars-themed WADs is rumored to have been the factor that prompted LucasArts to create their first-person shooter Dark Forces.

Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:

* Dark Star ( film ), a 1974 science fiction movie directed by John Carpenter

* The Dark Star, a 1919 film starring Marion Davies

* Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant

* Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers

* Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster

* Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst

* Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

* Dark Star ( band ), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998 – 2001

* Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band

* Rappers Rapp Group, later known as Dark Star, an American hip hop group

* Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996

* Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991

* Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993

* The Dark Star, by Volsoc, 2004

* " Dark Star " ( song ), by the Grateful Dead

* " Dark Star ", by Beck from The Information

* " Dark Star ", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ

* " Dark Star ", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN

* " Dark Star ", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions

* " Dark Star ", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.

* " Dark Star ", by Jackal & Hyde

* " Dark Star ", by Mike Oldfield from Tubular Bells II

* " Dark Star ", by Tarja Turunen from What Lies Beneath

* " The Enemy ", song from the album Damage Done by Dark Tranquillity

Along with the Parsons-Hillman originals " Christine's Tune " and " Sin City " were versions of the soul music classics " The Dark End of the Street " and " Do Right Woman ", the latter featuring David Crosby on high harmony.

One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.

In the 1970s, a harp was common in popular music, and can be heard in such hits as Cher's " Dark Lady ", the intro of " Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves ", and " Boogie Nights " by Heatwave.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.

In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in " Dark Page ", the seventh episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

The 836 law specifically banned Chinese from forming relationships with " Dark peoples " or " People of colour ", which was used to describe foreigners, such as " Iranians, Sogdians, Arabs, Indians, Malays, Sumatrans ", among others.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.

Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics.

It was eventually followed by another sequel, The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), which serves as a conclusion to Nolan's film series.

After he becomes Clayface, he is then replaced by Ellen Yin ( also based on The Dark Knight Returnss character Ellen Yindel ).

It involved Bruce waking up after being shot in the head by Two-Face, temporarily wiping a part of his memory ; he has forgotten his origin and life as the Dark Knight.

* In the book Dark Symphony ( 2003 ) by Christine Feehan, Byron gives Antonietta a black borzoi named " Celt ".

* Character ( album ), by Dark Tranquillity

The original conception of Call of Cthulhu was Dark Worlds, a game commissioned by the publisher Chaosium but never published.

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

Funeral, illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Carmilla in The Dark Blue, January 1872

A clerihew much appreciated by chemists is cited in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes regarding the inventor of the thermos bottle ( or Dewar flask ):

Dark chocolate is produced by adding fat and sugar to the cacao mixture.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

This meeting was dramatized in semi-fictional form for the BBC by Michael Ignatieff as Dialogue in the Dark.