' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

This adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.

* Constantinople provides the setting of much of the action in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".

Ritterroman focuses on the life and deeds of the knights and soldiers, but features many elements found in the gothic novel, such as magic, secret tribunals and medieval setting.

The setting of the novel in a Gothic castle was meant to imply not only a story set in the past but one shrouded in darkness.

The major part of the action in the Romance of the Forest is set in an abandoned and ruined abbey and the building itself served as a moral lesson, as well as a major setting for and mirror of the action in the novel.

Each wuxia novel has its own jianghu setting, although in Louis Cha's Condor Trilogy it will be one with continuity ; whereas Gu Long's jianghu would be distinct in every novel.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

She followed that up with the second novel with the same setting, The Warrior's Apprentice then worked on Ethan of Athos.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

* In Peter F. Hamilton's novel The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), neutronium is created by the " aggressive " setting of a superweapon.

The author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setting of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables ( 1908 ).

The novel begins with Deckard feeling alienated from his bed-ridden wife, Iran, who misuses her mood organ device, intended to keep the population in even temper, by dialing the depression setting daily.

He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as " Green Town " in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels — Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer — as well as in many of his short stories.

The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.

In the earliest manuscript of Dracula, dated 8 March 1890, the castle is set in Styria, although the setting was changed to Transylvania six days later.

Lindisfarne ( particularly the castle ) is the setting of the Roman Polanski film Cul-de-Sac ( 1966 ) with Donald Pleasence and Lionel Stander, shot entirely on location there.

The castle was the setting of the televised holiday series Jul på Kronborg (), which featured both Hamlet and Ogier the Dane.

However, the magical seal that Wario placed on the castle entrance can only be undone by collecting the six Golden Coins, which are guarded by Wario's henchmen in various locales of the game's setting, Mario Land.

In a way, the main character could be seen as the setting itself, with the castle and social structure of Gormenghast taking a central role in unifying the story.

The castle is the setting for the first two books in the series, Titus Groan and Gormenghast.

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the castle was the setting for a military tattoo to rival that of Edinburgh, the floodlit keep providing a spectacular backdrop.

Hjularöd's castle was the setting of the Swedish TV classic Mystery of Greveholm broadcast by SVT.

In " The Masque of the Red Death " Poe adopts many conventions of traditional Gothic fiction, including the setting of a castle.

After setting out for adventure, Lancelot comes across a castle guarded by the Copper Knight.

The castle is a central setting in Ron Dawson's children's story, ' Scary Bones meets the Wacky Witches of Wareham '.

Even though the city of Borgloon was the original official capital of Loon, Hasselt was to become the biggest city thanks to its favourable setting and to the proximity of the count ’ s castle and the Herkenrode Abbey in Kuringen.

The castle was rebuilt in the mid-17th century, and again in 1816 by Joseph Medworth, who also developed The Crescent, familiar as the setting in numerous costume dramas.

One night, Murnau rushes his team up to the main setting for his film, an old Slovak castle, for the first scene with the vampire.

Other tactics included setting fires against castle walls in an effort to decompose the cement that held together the individual stones so they could be readily knocked over.

The castle has a fine formal garden, designed by Lutyens with planting by Gertrude Jekyll, which contrasts effectively with its striking setting on the edge of Dartmoor.

It is not by accident that a network of lakes and waterways forms the setting for the castle, for these would seriously impede a prospective Russian offensive.

Edward is found living alone in the attic of a Gothic castle, a setting that is also used for main characters in Burton's Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Angry with the king for this, as well as with her father for setting her up for an arranged marriage, she rebels and leaves the castle to join the hero in his quest, hoping to save Dyluck as well.

The attempted destruction of the castle by Heinz Macher is the setting for the climax of the thriller Black Camelot by Duncan Kyle published in 1978 by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd.

During the 12th and 13th centuries the town of Devizes developed outside the castle with craftsmen and traders setting up businesses to serve the residents of the castle.

The name comes from the castle of Lord British, ruler of Britannia, the setting of the Ultima computer role playing game series, which he created.