I recently saw in passing some people talking about what would go into their personal Appendix Ns and so the idea started to bounce around in my head.
This list is by no way exhaustive, but I've listed some picks here on the type of things to check out which I feel have definitely shaped and influenced my view on things and where I get some of my ideas from.
It isn't a list of "here's bunch of cool stuff I've liked" but rather a list of things that I've enjoyed and that when combined might result is something like the type of games I tend to run myself.
The things listed here are also in absolutely no order whatsovere but rather just listed out as they popped to my head
----Literature----
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H. P. Lovecraft
Neil Gaiman
Dan Abnett
Ursula K. Le Guinn
Dmitry Glukhovsky - Metro Series
China Mieville - The City & The City, Embassytown
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
M. John Harrison - Light
Alastair Reynolds - Prefect
--Manga--
Nihei Tsutomu - Blame, Biomega, Abara
Sakamoto Shinichi - Innocent, Innocent Rouge, Kokou no Hito, #DRCL midnight children
Hayashida Q - Dorohedoro
Oshimi Shuzo - Happiness
Nishin Masumi - Heartless
Kagyu Kumo - Goblin Slayer
Kentaro Miura - Berserk
Kui Ryoko - Dungeon Meshi
----Music----
Cryo Chamber
Avatar
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
Heilung
Apocalypse Orchestra
----Videogames----
Souls-series (Demon's Souls, Darks Souls 1 - 3, Bloodborne, Elden Ring)
Hunt: Showdown
Darkest Dungeon
Disco Elysium
Planescape: Torment
Morrowind
Battle Brothers
Alice: Madness Returns
Dishonored
GTFO
Fallen London
----TTRPGS----
James Edward Raggi IV - Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Ville Vuorela - STALKER: The SciFi Roleplaying Game
James T. Hook - Have Axe Will Travel
Pelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr - Mörk Borg
--Modules--
Logan Knight - Sleeping Place of the Feathered Swine
Zak Smith - Frostbitten & Mutilated
James Edward Raggi IV - The God That Crawls
Patrick Stuart - Deep Carbon Observatory
Luka Rejec - Witchburner
Kelvin Green - Forgive us, Terror in the Streets, Curious Conundrum of the Conflagerrated Condottierro
--Supplements--
Sam Sorensen - Lowlife
Paolo Greco - Book of Gaub
Patrick Stuart - Veins of the Earth
Charles Ferguson-Avery - Into the Wyrd and Wild
(All art are photomanipulations by me, based off of public domain images)