Author Jacqueline Ciminelli Korda

Jackie Collins's Lucky Santiago Novels: The Hollywood Zoo and Lovers and Gamblers, Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, Anything by Dean Koontz (The Vision is my favorite out of the many I have read), Everything by Edgar Allan Poe, Janet and Stewart Farrar, Goth Craft by Raven Digitalis, Angelique's Descent by Lara Parker, Solitary Witch by Silver Ravenwolf, Tara's Song by Barbara Ferry Johnson, The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship and Her Magick by DeTraci Regula, On the Prowl by Karen MacInerney, Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands, Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Translated by Raymond O. Faulkner, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Edited by Helen Strudwick, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Myths and Culture Quantum Publishing, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult by John Michael Greer, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm, Great Irish Tales of Horror Edited and Introduced by Peter Haining, The Dark Shore and Call in the Night by Susan Howatch, Starting From Scratch: A Different Kind Of Writer's Manual by Rita Mae Brown, Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Edited by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert, Malicious Intent: A Writer's guide to how murderers, robbers, rapists and other criminals think by Sean Mactire, Pagan Christmas by Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Pet Ghosts by Joshua P. Warren, Illustrated Dictionary of Religions by Philip Wilkinson, 2012 and the Galactic Center: The Return of the Great Mother by Christine R. Page, M.D., The Cat's Fancy by Julie Kenner, Raymound Buckland, Scott Cunningham, A Darkness at Bromeley Hall by Marybeth Morgan (A Darkness at Bromeley Hall inspired me to write my Forbidden Passions Vampire series since I was in 7th grade. I have always loved those old Gothic novels from the 1960's and the 1970's), Twilight Phantasies by Maggie Shayne, Island of Mystery by Margaret M. Scariano, The Dark Shadows novels that were written in the 1960's and 1970's, John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles, Mary Higgins Clark's Moonlight Becomes You, Before I Say Goodbye, and A Cry in the Night, Seeking Asylum by Mallory Kane, J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Robin Cook's Sphinx, Janet Evanovich's How I Write and her Stephanie Plum Series, Gerina Dunwich's Your Magickal Cat, Patrinella Cooper's Gypsy Magic, Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association, Edited by Mort Castle, The Mammoth Book or Vampires and the Mammoth Book of Dracula, Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon, Jean Houston's The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Union of Two Souls, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead edited by J. Gordon Melton, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Everything by Emily Dickinson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer, Psycho by Robert Bloch, Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize Edited by John Hollander (This book was a gift from my High School English teacher Mr. Esposito and his wife. Thanks!), Some poetry and plays by William Shakespeare, Some poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Rossetti, William Cullen Bryant, and other Classic poets. My favorites are Poe and Dickinson. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Animal Speak by Ted Andrews, Dear Ghosts, and Moon Crossing Bridge by Tess Gallagher, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo…

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