Nicolas Roeg, Cormac McCarthy, Clive Barker, and Warmaster Horus
The Haunting (1963); Repo Man; Drowning by Numbers; Aliens; Psycho; Evil Dead; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Tenant; Dawn of the Dead (1978); The Thing; Curse of the Demon; Videodrome; Black Sunday; Suspiria; Apocalypse Now; The Wicker Man
The League of Gentlemen; The Office; Spaced; Arrested Development; Frontline; Alan Partridge; Black Adder; Monkey Dust; Twin Peaks
Blood Meridian; Cane; The Magus; The Three Imposters; the Books of Blood; VALIS; Red Harvest; The Moonstone; Illuminatus trilogy; Perdido Street Station; Pisan Cantos; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience; Pale Fire; The Invisibles; Transmetropolitan; Preacher; Promethea; EC comics; Sandman; From Hell
David Cronenberg, Alan Moore, Nathaniel West, Warren Ellis, Leon Trotsky, William Blake, Ezra Pound (kind of), HST, etc. etc. Unlesss by "hero" you mean like Batman, in which case, well, Batman.