Influences

Novels

• Passage, Connie Willis
• Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson

Non-fiction

• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
• The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit

Magazines

• Shimmer, Bracken

Poems

• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Because I could not stop for death, Emily Dickinson
• The Raven, Poe

Short stories, myths

• Orpheus
• Three Miles Up, Sarah Jane Howard
• Mr. Death, by Alix E. Harrow
• The Earth and Everything Under, KM Ferebee
• You Can Do It Again, Ian Michael Bell
• Palingenesis, Megan Arkenberg
• The Masque of the Red Death, Poe

Films & TV

• Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Flatliners, Ghost, The Sixth Sense, Big Fish, What Dreams May Come

Poets

• Czeslaw Milosz
• C.P. Cavafy
• Merlinda Bobis
• Lisel Mueller
• Ada Limón
• R.B. Lemberg
• Hanif Abdurraqib

Novels & Novellas

• Wounded Little Gods by Eliza Victoria
• The Likeness by Tana French
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
• The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
• The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction

• Autumn Light by Pico Iyer
• The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• On Fear by Mary Ruefle

Short stories

• We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It by E.A. Petricone
• The Translator, at Low Tide by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Asphalt, River, Mother, Child by Isabel Yap
• Unfurl/ed by Jes Rausch
• Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

Movies & TV

• Sunshine
• Flatliners
• The Terror
• Neon Genesis Evangelion

Songs

• “Putting the Dog to Sleep” by The Antlers
• “I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy” by Antony and the Johnsons
• “Crossbones Style” by Cat Power
• “Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)” by Metric