Comic Books
- A story in the Judge Dredd Yearbook 1992 called "The Mystery of Judge (Edwin) Drood" by Dan "Boz" Abnett. "Judge Drood" is an archivist accosted by a mugger, who becomes convinced this is Magwitch from Great Expectations and starts randomly spouting Dickens as he takes revenge. They end up killing each other, and Dredd appears at the end to declare the case unsolved because "That's all he wrote".
Literature
- Simon R. Green's Secret Histories series features a character named Edwin Drood.
- Drood, a Historical Fantasy by Dan Simmons set at the end of Dickens' life, inevitably features the writing of the novel.
- In The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin, the protagonist adopts the surname "Datchery" when asked to make a covert investigation.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who: In "The Unquiet Dead", Charles Dickens helps the Doctor thwart an alien invasion, ends with Dickens contemplating changing the ending so that Drood's disappearance was caused by aliens; Rose is worried that they've changed history, but the Doctor isn't concerned because he knows Dickens won't live to write the ending anyway.
