I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

The book itself was part of a set, but it was signed by Edgar Allen Poe and dated 1829,

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.

Quoth the raven nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.