Past Masters & Masterpieces
Here are some examples of authors whose work would fall within the scope of this magazines. Examples from poetry (such as William Blake) and visual arts are too numerous to list here. There are those who use the subconscious as inspiration, and those who use subconscious phenomena in their art, such as Guiseppe Arcimboldo, who used pareidolia (see picture at bottom of page).
Prose Fiction
Georges Bataille
William S. Burroughs
Angela Carter
Julio Cortazar
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the Fall
John Fowles’s The Magus
Nikolai Gogol
Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
Thomas Hardy’s The Withered Arm
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman
Franz Kafka
Alfred Kubin
D. H. Lawrence’s Mercury, The Border Line, & The Rocking Horse Winner
George MacDonald
Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla
Gustav Meyrinck
Octave Mirbeau’s Torture Garden
Joyce Carol Oates’s Haunted
John Cowper Powys
Bruno Schulz
Yokomitsu Riichi’s Time
Non-Fiction
Sigmund Freud (especially his essay on the uncanny, which discusses Hoffmann's The Sandman)
Carl Jung (whose Red Book is the perfect example of art created from the subconscious)
Joseph John Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces).
The Lawyer, by Guiseppe Arcimboldo, an example of pareidolia
from the collection of the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden