/lit/ - Literature

>INFLUENCES
(Ancient)
Homer, Odyssey & Iliad
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Virgil, Aeneid
(Medieval)
Dante, Divina Commedia
Pearl Poet, Gawain and the Green Knight
Arnaut Daniel, Collected Poems
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
(Elizabethan and Post-Elizabethan)
Shakespeare, Complete Plays, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece & Sonnets
Kit Marlowe, Dr Faustus
Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Milton, Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained

>GOTHIC & ROMANTIC
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
John William Polidori, Vampyre
Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk & Melmoth the Wanderer
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems (especially The Raven & Annabel Lee) & Tales (particularly The Tell-Tale Heart & Murders in the Rue Morgue)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner & Night Pieces

>VICTORIAN TO EDWARDIAN
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Oscar Wilde, Poems, The Portrait of Dorian Gray & Lord Arthur Saville's Crime & Other Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskerville
Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan, The White People & Short Stories

>MODERN (1905 TO 1940s)
Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo, The Willows & The Centaur
Lord Dunsany, Gods of Pegana, Poems & Tales
Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land & Tales
H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Stories (especially The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness & The Colour Out of Space), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath & Poems (especially Fungi from Yuggoth)
Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique Tales, Poems & Stories (particularly The Hunters from Beyond)
C.L. Moore, Collected Stories (particularly Black God's Kiss)
Robert E. Howard, Conan Stories (The Tower of the Elephant) & Solomon Kane Stories (especially Red Shadows)

>COLD WAR (1950s to 1960s)
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>HORROR BOOM PERIOD (70s to 80s)
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>DIGITAL AGE (1990s TO 2020s)
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