Wanderlust World Wanderlust World Despite the title's implication, there is no recurring hitchhiker character in Douglas Adams' beloved The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series that gives the author—or his protagonist Arthur Dent—"the willies." The question may stem from a confusion with Adams' lesser-known novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, which features a mysterious hitchhiker, or perhaps from the radio series' opening where Arthur's Ford Prefect actually is an alien hitchhiker stranded on Earth.
Adams' humor often played with absurdist coincidences and bureaucratic nightmares rather than supernatural dread. If you're referencing a specific scene, adaptation, or interview, additional context would help pinpoint the source of this literary phantom.