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Influences: A Tiered System

  10/31/2024 11:33 pm CST Dear Reader, Here are my influences in some strange order that might be meaningful. This is not a reflection of the quality of the artists' work, but rather a slipshod attempt at analyzing how much influence I think they have on my writing/storytelling. It's a real who's who and what's what. A list of influences pretty obvious for anybody who grew up in the '80s and '90s and who is clearly a pretty cool guy. S Tier Stephen King  (I will forever live in your shadow.) Chuck Palahniuk David Lynch Strange encounters with things just beyond your periphery Kurt Cobain PJ Harvey A Tier Edgar Allan Poe The Twilight Zone  (and others like it, think  The Outer Limits ) Horror Comics  (especially Junji Ito) Regina Spektor H.P. Lovecraft  (ewww though, right?) Forces beyond my understanding B Tier Ari Aster Any Horror Anthology Film  (especially  Southbound ) House of Leaves  by Mark Z. Danielewski The ever-consuming void that l...