A sound recording of "The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable" has been created by Robert H. Fossum as part of the Nineteenth Century American Writers Series, with Fossum as Lecturer. Deland, Florida, Everett/Edwards, 1971; available on cassette.

In another sound recording, "The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable" can be heard as read by Basil Rathbone, Caedmon TC 1120, 1197, (1960); available on vinyl.

Many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories and novels are set in seventeenth-century Puritan New England. Here, Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson portray the Puritan characters Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale in the 1926 film version of Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter.