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Inspirational Sources

Literature

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  • The Brothers Grimm’s collective works
  • Charles Perrault’s collective works
  • Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca
  • Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat, The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Eliza Parson’s The Castle of Wolfenbach
  • Hans Christian Anderson’s collective works
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror
  • James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • John William Polidori The Vampyre
  • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla
  • Lord Byron’s Darkness
  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark and Feathertop
  • Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey
  • Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
  • Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black 

Film & Television

  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
  • Brother’s Grimm (2005)
  • Crimson Peak (2015)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Hansel and Grettel: Witch Hunters (2013)
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
  • The Mummy (1999)
  • The Mummy Returns (2001)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)
  • Season of the Witch (2011)
  • Sleepy Hollow (1999)
  • Solomon Kane (2009)
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
  • Van Helsing (2004)
  • The VVitch (2015)
  • The Wolfman (2010) 

Games

  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010)
  • Bloodborne (2015)
  • Castlevania (1986-2014)
  • Dishonored (2012)
  • The Order: 1886 (2015)
  • Resident Evil Village (2021)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
  • Vampyr (2018)
  • Warhammer: Age of Sigmar/Old World – Witch Hunters
  • Warhammer: 40,000 – Inquisitors, Psykers