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unusual facts about Barlowe's Inferno


Barlowe's Inferno

Fox Animation had originally planned to create a CGI adaptation of Barlowe's Inferno, but all plans were scrapped with Titan A.E. 's failed release & the subsequent closing of the studio.


A TV Dante

Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips won the Prix Italia for A TV Dante, their ambitious project to produce a video version of Dante’s Inferno.

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text).

It contains his visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness

A number of supplemental materials (fake Arkham Advertiser clippings, pictures of the Elder Thing city, and rubbings of the Elder Things' hieroglyphics, with the images of the Elder Things based on their appearance in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials) were included with the CD, to maintain the illusion that is was an actual recording of a real-life event.

Game over

Some game over variations use literary references such as Abandon All Hope in Devil May Cry 4, and Dante's Inferno which uses a quote from the book of the same name every time the player dies.

Giovanni Malatesta

He is chiefly famous for the domestic tragedy of 1285, recorded in Dante's Inferno, when, having detected his wife, Francesca da Polenta (Francesca da Rimini), in adultery with his brother Paolo, he killed them both with his own hands.

Jimbo's Inferno

Jimbo's Inferno is a 2006 graphic novel written by Gary Panter, though it is actually Jimbo #7 from 1997 reformatted to the format of its sequel story, Jimbo in Purgatory.

The Search for the Red Dragon

Escaping him, the protagonists reach Neverland, where Daedalus reveals to them that the Underneath is divided into nine districts (as in Dante's Inferno), and asks them to become children themselves to better understand Hugh the Iron and William the Pig, the sons of Jason and the original Lost Boys.

The System of Dante's Hell

The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante.

Vanessa Branch

In 2010, she voiced the character of Beatrice Portinari in the video game Dante's Inferno and also starred in Sonny With a Chance on the Disney Channel.


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