Goodreads asked Alex Hartwell:

How do you get inspired to write?

Alex Hartwell I go back to the source material. Who made the movies and wrote the books that I love to this day and which got my motor runnin' when I was a kid? Once you immerse yourself in the best of the genre, you can't help but have it rub off on you.

For me personally, I always go back to George A. Romero's "Martin" and "Dawn of the Dead", Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "The Hills Have Eyes", Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead", Brian Keene's "The Rising" and "Ghoul", Stephen King's "Pet Sematary" and "The Stand", Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend", and Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" and "The Hellbound Heart".

There are so many more great writers and directors out there, but these are the essentials.

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