I actually... don't. I mostly read nonfiction (with a smattering of YA fantasy, apparently) for fun. I don't even really have anything I can cite as a stylistic inspiration for the actual "psychological thriller" part--if anything, I probably get a lot of technique in that department from movies, not books. If you see a story as a movie in your head, you end up transcribing suggestive character expressions and gestures rather than just saying, "He thought to himself..." Which may be what people mean when they talk about Black Ribbon. I don't know.
That said, I did read a lot of Victorian-era works, mostly because I just like them, but in a research sense, more for period detail, a sense of dialogue and vocabulary, that kind of thing.
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Date: 2006-09-19 02:41 am (UTC)That said, I did read a lot of Victorian-era works, mostly because I just like them, but in a research sense, more for period detail, a sense of dialogue and vocabulary, that kind of thing.