- Eblis, the architect of Vathek's damnation, was modelled on Iblis or Azazil; Beckford's depiction of Eblis is derived from John Milton's Paradise Lost's Satan (1667 and 1674; see Fallen angel).
- Argentinian writer Eduardo Berti's short story "El traductor apresurado" ("The Hurried Translator", published in 2002 in La vida imposible) strongly alludes to Beckford's novel.
- Chapter 7 of Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star (1996) mentions it.[18]
- Vathek, a symphonic poem written in 1913, composed by Luís de Freitas Branco, was inspired by this novel.[19]
- Another symphonic poem by the same title came from Horatio Parker in 1903.
- Vathek's insatiable thirst for knowledge also parallels the attitude seen in the character of Dr. Faustus, in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (1604), a work based on the German legend of Faust.
- H. G. Wells alludes to it in Tono-Bungay (1909).[20]
- The Spanish musician Luis Delgado has published an album called Vathek (1982), inspired by the literary work.
- An episode of Extreme Ghostbusters, "Deadliners", has malevolent spirits known as the Vathek.
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