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The door opens into warm darkness. The air is filled with smoke, its bitter-sweet scent undercut by a faint stink of sweat and bile. An attendant scurries toward you, seemingly out of nowhere, bearing a pipe and a pill of opium.
You settle into the lower level of a two-tiered bunk much like a train sleeping compartment. Declining to close the
This is not a luxurious place, not a picture-postcard place in red and gilt. The wooden walls know neither paint nor plaster; the floor is grimy; the air is close. But to the habitué, it is paradise.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Lau runs one of these in ''[[
* Granny Hao, Minnie May's old associate and underworld contact runs one of these off screen in ''[[
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* In the beginning of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' comic, Alan Quatermain is in an opium den.
** Towards the end he has to enter another one, and nearly relapses.
* The Blue Lotus in the ''[[Tintin
* The least romanticized version possible appears in ''[[Y:
* [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Fallen Angel (
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* In ''[[Dodgeball]]'', the [[Mockumentary]] on how to play dodgeball claims that the game was invented in Chinese Opium Dens.
* Williams from ''Enter the Dragon'' met his end in one of these at the hands of Mr. Han.
* ''[[Once Upon a Time
* In ''[[
* Both the graphic novel and film versions of [[
* ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' has one of these that doubles as a prostitution/white slaving ring.
* Harvey Keitel's eponymous (and [[No Name Given|nameless]]) ''[[
* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
* The Oscar-winning French film ''Indochine'': The protagonist is an addict who introduces her younger lover to them (even though he's supposed to be police its traffic). He drags her out of a den at one point.
* Eddie visits one toward the end of 1935's ''The Cocaine Fiends''.
* In ''Tombstone'', Curly Bill comes out of an opium den just before he shoot Marshall White. Later a character picks up an opium pipe in a den that instead turns out to be Wyatt Earp's peacemaker, with Wyatt Earp still attached to it.
* In ''[[
* D.W. Griffith's tragedy ''[[Broken Blossoms]]'' takes place in Limehouse. The Chinese hero, a Buddhist missionary, falls on hard times and takes to the pipe.
== Literature ==
* One shows up in the [[Sherlock Holmes (
* [[
* Appears in at least one of the ''[[Fu Manchu]]'' stories as a front for the Devil Doctor's activities.
* [[Robert E. Howard]] 's Rhomerian "weird menace" novel Skull Face starts with protagonist Steven Costigan (a u.s. veteran of WWI) escaping the nightmares of the Argonne trench warfare in an Opium Den located, of all places, in the Londinese limehouse.
* Jack Black's (not ''[[Name's the Same|that]]'' [[Jack Black]]) "You Can't Win" is a ''brilliant'' memoir about his experiences as a train-hopping thief. He becomes addicted to opium and writes extensively about his experiences in these places.
* In ''[[Around the World
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows".
* The title character in ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' frequents opium dens.
* [http://smokingstories.net/showstory.php?file=dinner_date.txt∂=0 This amateur story] (ads on page may be [[NSFW]]) features a futuristic ''[[Must Have Nicotine|tobacco]]'' den.
* Opium dens are depicted in all their squalor in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''The Fire Rose'', which is set in California during the age of trains.
* [[
* ''The Ruby in the Smoke'' by [[Philip Pullman]].
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* The Granada adaptation of "[[Sherlock Holmes|The Dying Detective]]" (though ''not'' the original story).
* [[Highlander the Series]]: A good friend of Duncan Macleod's spent the better part of an Old West [[Flash Back]] in one of these, trying to deaden the panic he'd felt about his role in the neverending Game.
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== Radio ==
* Pip sinks into dissolution and decay in ''[[
== Music ==
* Many a [[
* Men At Work's ''[[Land Down Under]]'' has one of these.
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== Video Games ==
* The Meat King's Party mission from ''[[Hitman]] Contracts'' features an opium den where you can pose as an attendant and serve one of your targets an opium pipe before taking him out.
* The Copper Coronet in ''[[Baldur's Gate
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
* Wizardry 7 has one, and your characters ''get to participate''. If you do, your characters get visited by some kind of [[Spirit Advisor]] who gives you a really powerful item.
* [[Wutai|Kyo]] has one in ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[
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