Quotes in Books
Joe Abercrombie's something of an artist with the quotes in his books, like when he quoted this Ancient Greek poet in his novel The Blade Itself
Homer
He's a cowboy, he's a loverboy, he's a poor representation of a Southern accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Quincy Morris
The POV character in the Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was called "the father of American literature" by William Faulkner and wrote, among other things, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but you might know him better as...
Mark Twain
The writer and performer of Laplace's Angel
In his novel The Shining, Stephen King quotes this Edgar Allen Poe short story
The Masque of the Red Death
A Welsh writer who ushered in a new era of horror, Arthur Machen is perhaps most famous for this 84-page story that Stephen King once called "One of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language."
The Great God Pan
The shapeshifting trickster character with two names in William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck, or Robin Goodfellow
Stephen King writes a cheeky thank-you note to his pen name Richard Bachman in this 1989 horror novel
The Dark Half
T S Eliot writes in this poem, "I dare not disturb the universe" as well as "in the room women come and go/speaking of Michelangelo"
The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
Philip Pullman's fantasy series His Dark Materials is named after a line from this work of classical poetry
Paradise Lost
The 16th century Faust legend, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Phantom of The Opera were all the loose inspiration for this cult classic 1974 comedic rock-opera horror movie.
The Phantom of The Paradise
The third story in Robert Chamber's The King in Yellow
The Court of The Dragon
The Right and Honorable Lord Byron was a poet famous for his chaotic nature and his influence on the New Romantic movement in 19th century poetry, but his real name was...
George Gordon Byron
This author wrote the sci-fi horror novelette Sandkings (which went on to win a Hugo) before penning a wildly successful epic fantasy series that later got adapted into a tv show with a... less successful ending
George R. R. Martin
Paul Tremblay quotes this 2010 song by Pile in his art house horror novel Horror Movie
Away in a Rainbow!
This episode of Jonathan Sims's The Magnus Archives references T A Hoffman's The Sandman, written in 1817
MAG 98: Lights Out
Mary Shelley was most known for her novel Frankenstein, but she wrote a great deal more then that, including this book about a man who survived a world-ending plague
The Last Man
Eric Arthur Blair, a writer most know for his political allegories, who wrote the nonfiction book The Road to Wigan Pier wrote under this name
George Orwell
Space travel comes at a cost in this Norse mythology inspired alt-rock album by The Mechanisms
The Bifrost Incident
In his masterpiece The Waste Land, T S Eliot quotes this prophetess from Greek mythology
Th Cumaean Sibyl
The writer of An Inhabitant of Carcosa, a setting which Robert Chambers borrowed for his collection of short stories The King in Yellow
Ambrose Bierce
Okay Mr. Vertigo, try to dodge that lightning! But the author of that novel, Paul Auster, also wrote this trilogy of books named after a famous city in America
The New York Trilogy
This author used the pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird" for works from which he wanted to distance himself
Harlan Ellison
In this Lydia The Bard song based on Alice in Wonderland, Alice has a dangerous double who only paints in one color.
I Only Paint in Red Now