Twenty-One Authors

The following is an alphabetical list of the twenty-one fiction authors who are most influential upon my own work. To the right of these names I have mentioned one or two of their creations or titles.  Most of these folks are long dead, but a few still alive and some still producing great fiction.

Edgar Rice Burroughs  (Tarzan, John Carter Warlord of Mars)

Bertrand R. Brinley  (Mad Scientists Club)

Stephen J. Cannell  (Rockford Files)

Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell)

Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt)

Lester Dent (Doc Savage)

Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)

Mike Grell (Warlord, Jon Sable)

Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)

Homer (The Odyssey and Iliad)

Robert E. Howard (King Kull, Solomon Kane)

HP Lovecraft (The Cthulhu Mythos)

Derrick Ferguson (Dillon, Sebastian Red)

Stan Lee (Spider-Man, Hulk)

Sir Thomas Malory (Le Morte D'Arthur)

Robert R. McCammon (Boy's Life)

Edgar Allen Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Joshua Reynolds (Mr. Brass, St. Cyprian and Gallowglass, Ulrich Popoca)

J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)

Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

HG Wells (War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man)