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There's a lot of good non-gaming source material out there. These are some of my favorite sources of inspiration. (Of course, the beautiful thing about this setting is that just about anything could be source material!) These aren't recommendations for good reads (watches, etc.), but there's something in all of them that you can tap for inspiration for your game. (Assume that every title is a movie unless an author is given, or something else is indicated.)

The Canon

These are the core works. The primary sources. The things that you should be using, just as a given.

Angel: The Series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds Video game
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book by Christopher Golden, et al
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin Comic
Fray Banner Fray Comic
Tales of the Slayers Comic
Tales of the Vampires Comic

The Apocrypha

These are the works that, while not a part of the Buffyverse, would fit in (almost) seamlessly. I usually treat these as "historical" events in my campaigns' continuity.

Big Trouble in Little China
The Craft
The Gift
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The List of 7 by Mark Frost
Lord of Illusions
The Lost Boys
The Mummy (1999 movie)
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Nightbreed
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poltergeist: The Legacy TV series
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shaun of the Dead
Stir of Echoes
Wonderfalls

Other Works

These aren't the sorts of things that fit in perfectly, or even well, but you can raid them for mood, characters and settings.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
An American Werewolf in Paris
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Avatar: The Last Airbender TV Series
Blade
Blade Runner
Bloodrayne Video game
Brimstone TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Film
Cabal by Clive Barker
Carmilla by Sheridan La Fenu
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Video game
Charmed TV series
Children of Dune Miniseries
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Dark City
The Dark Crystal
Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold Comic
The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe
A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson
Doom & Doom II: Hell on Earth Video games
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
End of Days
Fallen
Final Fantasy VI Video game
Forever Knight TV series
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ghostbusters
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders & Hexen: Beyond Heretic Video games
Heroes TV series
Highlander
Highlander: The Series TV series
John Doe TV series
Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Myth: The Fallen Lords & Myth II: Soulblighter Video games
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Night Stalker TV series
Oni Video game
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Video game
Quake Video game
The Ring
Second Sight Video game
Silence of the Lambs
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Special Unit 2 TV series
StarCraft & StarCraft: Brood War Video game
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stigmata
There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe
Veronica Mars TV series
Witchblade TV series and comic
The X-Files TV series (particularly the monster-of-the-week stories)

Last Updated on November 19, 2006

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