 The character Misquamacus is also the villain of the 1976 novel "The Manitou" (which was made into a film of the same name starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith and Michael Ansara in 1978), the 1979 novel "Revenge of the Manitou", the 1993 novel "Burial", the 1996 short story "Spirit Jump", the 2005 novel "Manitou Blood", the 2009 novel "Blind Panic" and the 2015 novel "Plague of the Manitou", all written by Graham Masterton.Billington inherits Richard Billington's estate in the early 19th century.He enters into a rivalry with Reverend Ward Phillips, who accused Billington and his forebear of practicing sorcery.