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The plan for this page is to trace the references to the four horsemen, starting with this book, then with its motion film versions, then with ''NetHack'' monsters [[Death]], [[Famine]] and [[Pestilence]], and finally at the end of the world as predicted by the [[Bible]].
 
The plan for this page is to trace the references to the four horsemen, starting with this book, then with its motion film versions, then with ''NetHack'' monsters [[Death]], [[Famine]] and [[Pestilence]], and finally at the end of the world as predicted by the [[Bible]].
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There are only three of the four horsemen named in NetHack. However, the fourth horseman, War, is considered to be the [[you|player]] themself.
  
 
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Revision as of 19:44, 1 May 2006

They were to have met in the garden of the Chapelle Expiatoire at five o'clock in the afternoon, but Julio Desnoyers with the impatience of a lover who hopes to advance the moment of meeting by presenting himself before the appointed time, arrived a half hour earlier.

So opens The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, as translated from Spanish to English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. The book is in the public domain; you can read it at Google Books.

The plan for this page is to trace the references to the four horsemen, starting with this book, then with its motion film versions, then with NetHack monsters Death, Famine and Pestilence, and finally at the end of the world as predicted by the Bible.

There are only three of the four horsemen named in NetHack. However, the fourth horseman, War, is considered to be the player themself.

This page is a stub. Should you wish to do so, you can contribute by expanding this page.