The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonder Land does not require any justification beyond the sheer amount of Alice-influenced games, tropes, archetypes, and worlds in video games, even when they are not direct adaptations.
Metamorphosis, the surreal Modernist short-story about the transformation of ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa into a horrifying insect is the stuff of body-horror. Any video-game in the last three decades that have given us the horror of body-transformations, monsters and yes, even puberty, can all be traced back to the imagination of this truly omni
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Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness is the kind of narrative that video-games have used time and again. From Metal Gear Solid to Silent Hill, the very concept of a level-by-level progress as one delves deeper into the game itself, all the while told with an impressionist or defined visual aesthetic, are all the makings of Conrad's literature.
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Mario Puzo
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The Godfather of crime-fiction should be at the top of the list of video-games that show an amoral protagonist indulging in a life of crime. Games like Grand Theft Auto, Mafia,, L.A. Noire, and Omerta all owe a debt to Puzo's exploration of organized crime.
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Dante Alighieri
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Aside form Devil May Cry and Inferno, Dante's resdesign of purgatory as various levels of torture in a simulated alternate reality and his grim, burning imagery of torture and redemption, are all the makings of classic video-games from Mortal Kombat to God of War and beyond.
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Clive Barker
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Clive Barker is the second author on this list who has directly worked on developing video-games based on his brand of horror.
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Tom Clancy
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Not only is Tom Clancy's work directly adapted in many games in the past, but those games in turn went on to redefine the genre itself. Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six being only the tip of the iceberg.
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Perhaps no other author has ever been more directly alluded to in the world of video-games than him. From the Cthulu myths to games like 'Alone in the Dark,' 'Amnesia,' 'Penumbra' and of course 'Call of Chthulu' -- Lovecraftian imagery has been borrowed for genres that he never worked himself, such as 'XCOM' and 'Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.'
