Referenced By / The Phantom Tollbooth

Comic strips

• Milo Bloom of Bloom County is named after Milo from this book, as creator Berkeley Breathed is a fan.

Fanworks

• In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, one of Lexi's pages depicts a boy and a watchdog traveling down a winding road.

Literature

• In Harmony (2016), Tilly and Iris name Camp Harmony's lake the Sea of Knowledge.
• The punny title of Harry Turtledove's short story "The Phantom Tolbukhin" is a nod to The Phantom Tollbooth.

RealLife

• The MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 features Tock as one of the main characters and guides to Bookspace, and the way to exit Bookspace is through the tollbooth, which must be restored by the Plot Device. The writers brought up the book itself as one of the inspirations behind the hunt itself.

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