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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Board Games]] ==

* The game ''Kill Doctor Lucky'', which is inspired by ''Clue'', also takes place in such a mansion.

* ''13 Dead End Drive'' is a board game with this as the set piece and the players as potential heirs trying to bump each other off.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The 1932 movie ''[[The Old Dark House]]'' (as well as the 1963 remake) is the [[Trope Namer]].

** Both movies are based on an old novel, ''Benighted'', by J.B. Priestly.

* ''[[Murder By Death]]'' is one of these movies, only the guests are all pastiches of famous fictional detectives.

* Even though it takes place in a radio station during a live show, [[The Radioland Murders]] plays this trope pretty well. The biggest difference is that only certain important people conected to the station are in danger, and not everyone in the building.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* ''[[The Bat]]'' is set at the house of Courtleigh Fleming, the late president of the failed Union Bank. Rumor has it that the money robbed from the bank is stashed in a Hidden Room in the house. In an old country house whose lights tend to fail during storms, candles, pocket flashlights, and wristwatches with illuminated dials all become important items.

* Parodied by the play-within-a-play in [[Tom Stoppard]]'s ''The Real Inspector Hound''.

* One of the Dark Brotherhood mission from ''[[Elder Scrolls]] 4: [[Oblivion]]'' sends you to one of these, only ''you'' are the murderer. (Though it's possible to convince the guests to kill each other.)

* [http://shivergames.com/lucius/ Lucius] plays this trope much like the Dark Brotherhood mission from Oblivion. You play a child of the devil who must kill everyone else in the house without arousing suspicion.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==