Thank’s Murph☺️ I have to throw A.P. Murphy back at himself because his work always yanks me right out of my comfort zone and I always need that. Similarly, Jon T and William Pauley III always decenter me in ways I very much appreciate. I’m so bad at these, I have the recall of a rock. There are so many more of you, but I have to mention Elizabeth Lamont for her amazing Hell’s Kitchen series.

Outside of here… Kafka, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Angela Carter, the Icelandic Sagas, Poe, Shirley Jackson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Dunn, and manga, everything by Junji Ito, but also Kentaro Miura’s Berserk (which I’m still reading).