 British comic book writer Alan Moore wrote a version of the invunche very similar to Chatwin's description during his run on "Swamp Thing", as an antagonist to John Constantine in the first story he appeared in.In the 2000 novel "Portrait in Sepia" ("Retrato en Sepia") by Isabel Allende, the character Aurora del Valle recalls being told about the Imbunche in her childhood.In the 2014 urban fantasy novel, "Luke Coles and the Flower of Chiloe", the invunche is mentioned seven times.