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>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)
N/A

>HORROR BOOM PERIOD (70s to 80s)
N/A

>DIGITAL AGE (1990s TO 2020s)
N/A

>> No.22054485

>>22054477
>No Arabian Nights in influences
smdh

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>>22054485
If you don't read for hours a day, at a modest pace of at least one page per minute or (at most) two minutes, then you will never, ever get to experience reading. If you can't read the OP canon in less than two years, then there is no point in you posting on /lit/. It beggars belief anyone would post on a literature forum without having read all that is to be read, and read deeply.
Even if you are a slow reader, you can read four hours a day outside of work. That is at least 120 pages a day. Across a week, that would be a longish novel, or a few shorter ones. It certainly would be enough for several poetry selections.
Across a year, you should do at least 45,000 pages of reading. If you start reading from 18 until your 60s (when your mind deteriorates slowly), then you would have read nearly 2,000,000 pages. That is thousands of books. Start now. Before it is too late. If you don't read around 5000-10,000 books, then you have not read the best that has been written, then you can't be said to have read at all.
If you're reading this now, then it means you can read books. Don't be like the rest of the plebeians who languish in obscure ignorance.

>> No.22054916

>>22054612
I don't recall this pasta..

>> No.22056158

>>22054477
>No Heinlein or Jack Vance
NGMI

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>>22054477
>no king in yellow