| General | Film, conceptual photography, cosmology, special-effects make-up, horror, fairytales, and the apocalypse. | | Music | | | Movies | Martyrs, Let The Right One In, Psycho, The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead 2, Poltergeist, Halloween, The Thing, Suspiria, The Haunting, The Fly, Phantasm, Nosferatu, Them, The Mask of Satan, 3 Faces of Fear, Eraserhead, The Blair Witch Project, Wolf Creek, Audition, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Haute Tension, Videodrome, Creepshow, Henry, 28 Days Later, Going to Pieces, The Shining, Salvage, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman version), The American Nightmare, Sleepy Hollow, The Company of Wolves, Cannibal Holocaust, Peeping Tom, Quarantine, Night of the Living Dead. | | Television | | | Books | The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Second Four Books of Poems by W.S. Merwin, Man's Search For Meaning, Story by Robert McKee, The Horror Genre by Paul Wells, The Naked Ape, The Horror Film by Stephen Prince, The Horror Film by Peter Hutchings, The Elegant Universe, Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, anything by Kurt Vonnegut
| | Heroes | Joseph Campbell, Rich Grosko, Mario Bava, David Cronenberg, Chris Cunningham, Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Philip Curtis, W.S. Merwin, P.T. Anderson, Francis Bacon, Walt Disney, Brad Bird, Robert Parke-Harrison, Frederick Sommer, Guillermo del Toro, George Melies, and Stanley Kubrick. |
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