The popularity of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai is not limited to Japan, in the Episode "Freshman Fear" of the A&E docu-drama reality television series Paranormal State, members of Penn State Paranormal Research Society play the Ancient Japanese Game of One Hundred Candles during their investigation of a supposed haunting in a student dormitory.
Yōkai were enjoyed as the subject of kyōka, and with a focus on Ōta Nampo who is well known as a kyōka poet, and imitating the techniques of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, an event was held where he recited kyōka about a total of one hundred kinds of yōkai, but with the intent of doing it again, he collected together the kyōka, and the book was the result of collecting together only the better of the poems.