Inspiration

Texts that informed the genre, time peri­od, and tone of Incunab­u­li. Rec­om­mend­ed for your con­sump­tion, the bet­ter to affect your game. Items with a fleu­ron (❦) were espe­cial­ly influ­en­tial.

AUTHORS (Books)

Bram Stok­er (Drac­u­la)
Charles Dick­ens (Oliv­er Twist)
Cor­mac McCarthy (Blood Merid­i­an)
Edgar Allan Poe (The Fall of the House of Ush­er, The Cask of Amon­til­la­do, oth­ers)
Emi­ly Bron­të (Wuther­ing Heights)
Ernest Hem­ming­way (The Sun Also Ris­es, A Farewell to Arms) ❦
Gus­tave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
H. G. Wells (The Time Machine)
Her­man Melville (Moby Dick) ❦
Jeff Van­der­Meer (Anni­hi­la­tion)
Joseph Con­rad (Heart of Dark­ness)
Jules Verne (Jour­ney to the Cen­ter of the Earth, Twen­ty Thou­sand Leagues Under the Seas, The Light­house at the End of the World) ❦
Mary Shel­ley (Franken­stein)
Philip Pull­man (North­ern Lights/The Gold­en Com­pass) ❦
Sheri­dan Le Fanu (Carmil­la)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Ter­ry Pratch­ett (Dis­c­world nov­els) ❦
Ursu­la le Guin (The Left Hand of Dark­ness)

Movies

A Dark Song (2016)
Amadeus (1984)
Angel’s Egg (1985)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Bone Tom­a­hawk (2015)
Byzan­tium (2012)
Dol­lars Tril­o­gy
Indi­ana Jones and the Tem­ple of Doom (1984)
Prometheus (2012) ❦
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Beguiled (2017)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Duel­lists (1977)
The Inno­cents (1961)
The Hal­low (2015)
The Light­house (2019)
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

The sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End where they sail to the after­life to retrieve Jack.

Innu­mer­able hor­ror films of mid­dling qual­i­ty.

Poetry

John Mil­ton (Par­adise Lost)
Per­cy Bysshe Shel­ley (Ozy­man­dias)
Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge (Kubla Khan)

Television

Board­walk Empire (2010)
Down­ton Abbey (2010)
The Knick (2014) ❦
The Ter­ror (2018)

Video games

Below (2018)
Bioshock (2007)
Bioshock Infi­nite (2013)
Cultist Sim­u­la­tor (2018) ❦
Dark­est Dun­geon (2016) ❦
Dis­hon­ored (2012)
Dis­hon­ored 2 (2016) ❦
Hunt: Show­down (2018)
Indi­ana Jones and the Great Cir­cle (2024)
Patho­log­ic (2005)
Res­i­dent Evil (1996)
Sun­less Sea (2015)
Super­broth­ers: Sword & Sworcery EP (2011)
Tomb Raider (2013)

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