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INFLUENCES - Novelists: Things Heard and Seen, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

The 19th century Irish novelist, Sheridan Le Fanu: "Uncle Silas", “Green Tea” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu) Honoré de Balzac's Seraphita, and Louis Lambert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoré_de_Balzac) Richard Matheson (raised Christian Scientist, What dreams may come, I am Legend, Other Kingdoms) August Strindberg: “Charles XII”, Inferno, and Jacob Struggles, and his Religious Renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Strindberg) Vilhelm Ekelund: On the Seashore. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Ekelund) Fyodor Dostoyevski