• The Classics, roots of the Western literary tradition: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, and The Aeneid by Virgil.

• The Epics of Ancient India: The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.

• The works of Jack London.

• La obra del maestro italiano Emilio Salgari.

• The works of the late British Professor J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Another British master: Rudyard Kipling. Those of his poems which I count as seminal influences are included individually further below.

• The work of an Irish master: Dracula by Bram Stoker.

• A woman's masterpiece and the first Science Fiction novel: Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.

• The Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert, a magnificent opus expanded in recent years by Herbert's son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson.

• The ever living, growing and evolving Star Wars Universe, brainchild of George Lucas and associates.

• Dos pivotales series televisivas de los años 1980-90: Hércules: Los viajes legendarios y Xena: La princesa guerrera. Sus creadores lograron entusiasmar al público en general con las mitologías de numerosas culturas, entretener, desatar controversias, pero sobre todo, instar a la gente a crear sus propios mitos.

• Book of Days and Hope Has a Place; two precious works out of many by Roma Ryan, Enya's lyricist.

• If by Kipling.

• Si de Kipling; traducción al español de Juana de Ibarbourou.

• Love Song for a Vampire by Annie Lennox, from the soundtrack for the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola.

• Mowgli's Song Against People from The Jungle Book, by Kipling.

• The Outsong from The Jungle Book, by Kipling.

• The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke.

• La pantera de Rainer Maria Rilke; traducción al español de Gail Peters.

• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

• The Tyger by William Blake.

• To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant.

• Fragment by D.H. Lawrence

• Fragment from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

• Wind's Four Quarters from the Vows and Honor duology, by Mercedes Lackey.

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