Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Johnson and Hodge James Joyce Kalevala John Keats, including La Belle Dame sans Merci The Konungs skuggsjá or Royal Mirror Krummholz Jean de La Fontaine and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" (or cicada) Franklin Knight Lane Angus McDiarmid or MacDiarmid, author of Striking and Picturesque Delineations... The Magi, including Balthasar and Melchior Novaya Zemlya Papilio nitra (now P. zelicaon nitra) and P. indra Parthenocissus Edgar Allan Poe and the poem "To One in Paradise" (for the phrase "Dim gulf") Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift Marcel Proust François Rabelais Red admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta Alberto Santos-Dumont Walter Scott, including "Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's Coronach", "The Lady of the Lake", and The Pirate Robert Southey, in particular, the Poet Laureate's rivalry to Lord Byron as alluded to in the latter's Don Juan dedication Speyeria diana and S. atlantis Thormodus Torfaeus Waxwing Pierinae Word golf William Wordsworth, including "The River Wye", and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including "Kubla Khan" Lev Yashin, a "stupendous Dynamo goalkeeper" See also The Ambidextrous Universe, a later book referencing Pale Fire which in turn triggered a reciprocal response in a subsequent Nabokov novel (Ada, 1969). In popular culture In page 441 of the 1988 book The Satanic Verses, the character Chamcha quotes a line from Pale Fire: “My Darling, God makes hungry, the Devil thirsty.” The 1996 The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" features a creature named "Lord Kinbote". Nabokov is the favourite author of the episode's writer Darin Morgan. In the 2017 movie Blade Runner 2049, the device performing a "Post-Trauma Baseline Test" on Ryan Gosling's character, "K", quotes lines 703–707 of the poem. A copy of the book is also shown in K's apartment, and in another scene where K is being queried about his memories by Lieutenant Joshi. Shade misinterpretations of the reality of the afterlife has been compared to K's misinterpretations about his character. In the 2018 movie Unsane, the main character claims Pale Fire as her favorite book. Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa (2020) refers to Pale Fire, specifically lines 269–274, when Vanessa's teacher/abuser shows this stanza to her, calling her "my dark Vanessa" as in Shade's poem. References External links Summary of a radio adaptation of Pale Fire broadcast in 2004 by BBC Radio 3 Criticism (at Zembla, web site of the International Vladimir Nabokov