S&P: Core Guide Touchstones

Anthology fiction television:

• Twilight Zone (CBS/Paramount: Rod Serling Original, Jordan Peele relaunch)

• Black Mirror (Netflix, Charlie Brooker)

• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Prime Video, inspired by works of Philip K. Dick)

• Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix, Guillermo del Toro, inspired by various)

• Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel, 2004 series, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick)

• Stranger Things (Netflix, Duffer Brothers)

• Sense8 (Netflix, Wachowskis)

• Mike Flanagan Netflix miniseries

  • Haunting of Hill House (inspired by Shirley Jackson novel of the same name)

  • Haunting of Bly Manor (inspired by Henry James’ novella Turning of the Screw)

  • Midnight Mass

  • Fall of the House of Usher (inspired by works of Edgar Allan Poe)

Movies:

• Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Brian Froud)

• Return to Oz (Disney)

• Black Cauldron

• Secret of Nimh

• Last Unicorn

• Dark City

• Matrix trilogy (Wachowskis)

• Cloud Atlas (Wachowskis)

• Gerald’s Game (Mike Flanagan adaptation of Stephen King novel)

• Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan adaptation of Stephen King novel)

• Minority Report (adaptation of Philip K. Dick short story of the same name)

• Blade Runner (adaptation of Philip K. Dick short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”)

• A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater adaptation of Philip K. Dick short story of the same name)

• Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

19th- and 20th-century short stories:

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Lord Dunsany

• H.P. Lovecraft

• Robert Chambers

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature:

• L. Frank Baum

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• Alexandre Dumas

• Stephen King (specifically the Dark Tower series)

• Jules Verne

• H.G. Wells

Immersive, atmospheric mystery and exploration-style computer games:

• Myst (Cyan Studios)

• 7th Guest (Trilobyte, Brøderbund Software)

• Zork: Nemesis (Activision)

• Alan Wake 1 and 2 (retroactively) (Remedy Entertainment)