has referenced the Hellfire Club across several works. His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character. Kage Baker in her 2007 short story "Hellfire at Twilight". Tom Knox in the 2009 novel The Genesis Secret. Jake Tapper in the 2018 political thriller The Hellfire Club. James Herbert's 1995 novel The Ghosts of Sleath features Dashwood and the Hellfire Club. J. D. Barker & Dacre Stoker in 2018's novel Dracul. The 2004 visual novel Animamundi: Dark Alchemist includes scenes in which a character named Francis Dashwood brings the protagonist to the Hellfire Club. The Hellfire Club is said to have inspired: The Heavenly Host in Anne Stuart's House of Rohan series. The Lords of Chaos in Elizabeth Hoyt's Maiden Lane series. Comics In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club (1980) is an ancient club for the rich and hedonistic with Regency Era trappings that has branches all over the world, concealing the "Inner Circle", a powerful and influential criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga. Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld "The Hellfire Club" in his comic book series The Sandman (1989–1996). The Hellfire Club and Dashwood play a role in the comic Hellblazer. Drama The 2001 audio play Minuet in Hell features the Hellfire Club led by a descendant of Sir Francis Dashwood. Film The 1960 film The Hellfire Club starring Keith Michell and Peter Cushing depicts Dashwood's organisation. In the 2011 film X-Men: First Class, the Hellfire Club is infiltrated by CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) suspecting communist activity. Once inside, she discovers that U.S. Army Colonel Hendry is colluding with Sebastian Shaw to turn the Cuban Missile Crisis into a full-scale nuclear war. The 1999 Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut includes a scene strongly resembling a Hellfire Club, in which masked members of societal elite participate in rituals including chants, while engaging in orgy-like sexual activities. Television The Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone" (1966) had Steed and Mrs. Peel infiltrate a modern incarnation of the club whose pranks were expanding to destroy the government. The Blackadder the Third episode "Ink & Incapability" (1987) begins with a