TheNightling
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I saw this on a friend's Facebook and thought I should make my own.
This is not a list of your favorite authors but authors that helped to shape who you are today, who influenced you for better or worse.
Bonus 3:
Neil Gaiman - Creator of The Sandman and several other fantasy works. I had a brief obsession with is work that lasted nearly seven years but it has mostly passed.
Oscar Wilde - Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost (Which everyone forgets is a novella). I wish I could write with Wilde's wit and eloquence.
Mary Shelley - Author of Frankenstein, one of the greatest works of Gothic literature. I don't really consider her science fiction but I do feel science fiction did start with a woman. (See the novel The Blazing World from 1666).
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Main list:
Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree was a childhood favorite, especially the animated adaptation which he narrated. I also love Something Wicked This way Comes and I read Fahrenheit 451 in school. I wish I could write like Ray Bradbury.
Fred Saberhagen - Fred Saberhagen's Dracula books fast became my favorite on-going book series. It influenced how I played Dracula in online role playing games and what I looked for in Gothic / vampire fiction, particularly pertaining to Count Dracula. I loved his books so much that I wrote the introduction to the Saberhagen Vampire Tales short stories collection.
Anne Rice - For better or worse Anne Rice's novels (particularly the first three or four Vampire Chronicles) had a major impact on me. I was obsessed with them as a teenager. I once attended an Anne Rice book signing where she complimented my jacket. (a purple, velvet frock coat at the time).
Deborah Warner AKA D. L. Warner - Author of Demon Under Glass and my friend. She helped me to get published at least twice and was always there for me. She had the power to lift people up and help them dream. I miss her and wish I knew her better.
Alvin Schwartz - Author of The Scary Stories to tell in the dark books (three of them). And In a Dark, Dark Room. In a Dark, Dark, Room was the second book I ever read on my own. I was in kindergarten, age four. And it helped act as my gateway into loving all things spooky. See less
This is not a list of your favorite authors but authors that helped to shape who you are today, who influenced you for better or worse.
Bonus 3:
Neil Gaiman - Creator of The Sandman and several other fantasy works. I had a brief obsession with is work that lasted nearly seven years but it has mostly passed.
Oscar Wilde - Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost (Which everyone forgets is a novella). I wish I could write with Wilde's wit and eloquence.
Mary Shelley - Author of Frankenstein, one of the greatest works of Gothic literature. I don't really consider her science fiction but I do feel science fiction did start with a woman. (See the novel The Blazing World from 1666).
________________________________
Main list:
Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree was a childhood favorite, especially the animated adaptation which he narrated. I also love Something Wicked This way Comes and I read Fahrenheit 451 in school. I wish I could write like Ray Bradbury.
Fred Saberhagen - Fred Saberhagen's Dracula books fast became my favorite on-going book series. It influenced how I played Dracula in online role playing games and what I looked for in Gothic / vampire fiction, particularly pertaining to Count Dracula. I loved his books so much that I wrote the introduction to the Saberhagen Vampire Tales short stories collection.
Anne Rice - For better or worse Anne Rice's novels (particularly the first three or four Vampire Chronicles) had a major impact on me. I was obsessed with them as a teenager. I once attended an Anne Rice book signing where she complimented my jacket. (a purple, velvet frock coat at the time).
Deborah Warner AKA D. L. Warner - Author of Demon Under Glass and my friend. She helped me to get published at least twice and was always there for me. She had the power to lift people up and help them dream. I miss her and wish I knew her better.
Alvin Schwartz - Author of The Scary Stories to tell in the dark books (three of them). And In a Dark, Dark Room. In a Dark, Dark, Room was the second book I ever read on my own. I was in kindergarten, age four. And it helped act as my gateway into loving all things spooky. See less
