Inspirations

LITERATURE

  • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes
  • Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life, Patrick Curry
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  • Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
  • Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
  • Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
  • Natural History: A Selection, Pliny the Elder
  • Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, Byung-Chul Han
  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
  • The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Clark Ashton Smith
  • The Door in the Wall, H.G. Wells
  • The Gormenghast Trilogy and Boy in Darkness, Mervyn Peake
  • The Illiad of Homer
  • The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
  • The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
  • The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas
  • The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Tree (John Fowles essay)
  • Time and the Gods (omnibus) and The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

MUSIC

  • The Architecture of Melancholy (Peter Bjärgö)
  • As the End Draws Near (Arcana)
  • DIM Compendium II
  • Goëtia (Peter Gundry)
  • Hidden Orchestra
  • Kodama or Spiritual Instinct (Alcest)
  • Night is the New Day (Katatonia)
  • Nightfall in Middle-Earth (Blind Guardian)
  • Princess Mononoke Soundtrack
  • Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga (Wardruna)
  • She Reaches out to She Reaches out to She (Chelsea Wolfe)
  • Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret (Rhapsody of Fire)
  • The Longing Soundtrack
  • The Tolkien Ensemble
  • World of Warcraft classic soundtrack

ART

  • AA78 and Blind Man with a Cane by Zdzisław Beksiński
  • At Tarn Aeluin by Ted Nasmith
  • Cernunnos by John Howe
  • Diogenes by Léon Gérôme
  • Frankenstein frontispiece by Theodore Von Holst
  • Gormenghast and The Grey Havens by Alan Lee
  • Huldra forsvant by Theodor Kittelsen
  • Insomnio by Remedios Varo
  • Landscape and Sky by Sydney H. Sime
  • Overthinker by Nicolae Scarlat
  • Paradiso, Canto 34 by Gustav Dore
  • The Monarch of the Glen by Edwin Landseer
  • Two Trees and a House by John Kenn Mortensen

FILM/TV

  • 1917
  • Apocalypto
  • Dogs (Series) (2018)
  • Every Star (Yawen Zheng)
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • Macbeth (2015)
  • Melancholia
  • Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Penny Dreadful (series)
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Spirited Away
  • The Eagleman Stag
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
  • The King’s Speech
  • The Last Samurai
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • The Man Who Planted Trees
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • The Road
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Witch
  • Vikings (series)

GAMES

  • Arrog
  • Creaks
  • Firewatch
  • Gorogoa
  • Journey
  • Limbo
  • Monument Valley
  • Mundaun
  • Shelter
  • The Lion’s Song
  • The Longing
  • The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
  • World of Warcraft

Azeroth

Bushcraft

Creation

Dogs

Ecology

Fantasy

Green

Highlands

Imagination

Joy

Kaldorei

Lord Dunsany

Myth

Nature

Old

Passion

Questing

Reading

Sarturus

Tolkien

Unbounded

Veneration

Wonder

XANTURI

Yore

Zones (Azerothian biomes)