A Hospital Hundred and One
(Here is an (incomplete list) of some of the influences on the book.)
1. Akira
2. Philippe Ariès (The Hour of Our Death)
3. Isaac Babel
4. Francis Bacon
5. J.G.Ballard (High Rise)
6. Barthelme
7. Barthes
8. Baudelaire
9. Samuel Beckett
10. Captain Beefheart
11. The Bible
12. Birdy
13. William Blake
14. Stephane Blanquet
15. Harold Bloom
16. Jorge Luis Borges
17. Breugel the Younger
18. John Bunyan
19. Charles Burns
20. William Burroughs
21. Angela Carter
22. Casualty
23. Jake and Dinos Chapman (Hell)
24. Chaucer
25. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
26. Coma
27. Julian Cope's Krautrocksampler
28. Michael Crichton
29. David Cronenberg (Existenz)
30. Robert Crumb
31. Chris Cunningham
32. Dante
33. Defoe (A Journal of the Plague Year)
34. Deleuze & Guattari
35. Thomas DeQuincey
36. Derek & Clive
37. Doom
38. Philip K Dick
39. Dune
40. Bob Dylan ('Open the Door, Homer')
41. Marcel Dzama
42. E.R.
43. The Exorcist
44. Michel Foucault
45. Alex Garland (Coma)
46. Goya (The Disasters of War, Los Caprichos)
47. Gunter Grass (Headbirths)
48. el Greco
49. Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)
50. The Brothers Grimm
51. Frank Huyler (The Blood of Strangers)
52. Spike Jonze
53. James Joyce
54. Franz Kafka
55. Lars von Trier (The Kingdom)
56. C.S.Lewis
57. Jonathan Livingstone Lowes (The Road to Xanadu)
58. Robert Marion (The Intern Blues)
59. The Meaning of Life (Monty Python)
60. Jed Mercurio's Bodies
61. James Merrill (The Changing Light at Sandover)
62. China Mieville ('Familiar')
63. Milton (Paradise Lost)
64. Charles Mingus
65. Chris Morris
66. Edvard Munch
67. The Muppet Show
68. My School Biology Textbook
69. Omen I, II & III
70. Ovid
71. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
72. Oxford Handbook of Accident & Emergency Medicine
73. The 'Pearl' poet
74. Picasso
75. Edgar Allan Poe
76. Grace Read (Heart Murmurs)
77. Rembrandt
78. Resident Evil 2
79. George Romero
80. Rosemary's Baby
81. Mark Sanderson's Wrong Rooms
82. Bruno Schulz
83. Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
84. Shakespeare (King Lear)
85. Samuel Shem (The House of God)
86. Silent Hill
87. Ali Smith
88. Society
89. Solzhenitsyn (The Third Circle)
90. Muriel Spark
91. Stephen King (Salem's Lot)
92. Steven Spielberg
93. Spirited Away
94. Swift
95. Tom & Jerry
96. The Towering Inferno
97. Toy Story
98. Marina Warner (Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the
Self)
99. Ben Watt's Patient
100. The Wicker Man
101. W.B.Yeats