This list is not exhaustive, but if you wonder what we’re about, it’s a good place to begin.
Elise’s List of Influences (fiction editor)
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
Nicasio’s List of Influences (poetry editor)
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