Olive Borden, Guy Maddin, Edgar Allan Poe, Robin Spriggs, Lon Chaney, Guillermo del Toro, Ray Bradbury, Michael Chabon, Thomas Ligotti, William Shakespeare, Francis Thompson, Tarsem Singh, Shirley Jackson, Anton LaVey, Federico Fellini, Clint Mansell, Bjork, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Baudelaire, Mae Murray, Werner Herzog, Emily Dickinson, Franz Mesmer, Johnny Depp, Gary Oldman . . .