A FLASH IN THE DARK

Baleful Influences


The following volumes are rumoured to have exerted their maleficent influence over this Work.

Weird Fiction & Folk Horror
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
The Collected Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James
The Complete Tales and Poems of Egar Allan Poe
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen
The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places by William Hope Hodgson
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

History, Mythology and Folklore
The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
The Old Striaght Track by Alfred Watkins
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural by Howard Schwartz.

Secondary Sources
Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange by Adam Scovell
The Notes and Commonplace Book of H.P. Lovecraft

Grimoires, Alchemical Books, Mystical Tracts, & Magical Texts
The Voice of the Silence (1889) by H.P. Blavatsky
Demoniality: Incubi and Succubi (c. 17th C.) by Sinistrari of Ameno
The Clavicula Salomonis Regis or Goetia (c. 17th)
Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum Et Theosophicum (1721) by von Welling
A True and Faithful Relation (1659) by John Dee
Steganographia (1606) by Trithemius
Daemonologie (1597) by King James I of England
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) by Reginald Scot
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1563) by Johann Weyer
Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1531) by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim
The Clavicula Salomonis (c. 14th C.)
Sepher Rezial Hemelach (13th C.) by Eleazer of Worms
Ghayat Al-Hakim or Picatrix (c. 11th C.)






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