When authors give shout outs to other great works, people, and events, it's usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death" (epigraph)
- Writer's Digest (5.13)
- Samuel Pepys (6.23)
- Charles Olson (6.23)
- Esquire (6.25, 14.29)
- Victoria Holt (8.4)
- Bluebeard (11.97, 19.28, 25.23)
- Arthur Miller (12.47)
- E.L. Doctorow, Welcome to Hard Times (15.1)
- William Shakespeare (15.5)
- Eugene O'Neill (15.5)
- Horace Walpole (19.5)
- National Enquirer (21.9)
- Cashelmara (32.1)
- Reader's Digest (45.5)
Historical References
- Goya (epigraph)
- The Vanderbilts (1.33)
- The Rockefellers (1.133)
- President Woodrow Wilson (1.33)
- President Warren G. Harding (1.33)
- President Theodore Roosevelt (1.33)
- President Richard Nixon (1.33)
- The Donner Party (8.17, 10.29)
- The Titanic (11.23, 24)
- Nelson Rockefeller (18.14)
- Michelangelo (21.43)
- Bartok (26.1)
- Bach (26.1)
Pop Culture References
- Sesame Street (4.1, 16.5)
- Lon Chaney (5.76)
- Phantom of the Opera (5.76)
- Billie Holiday (6.5)
- Peggy Lee (6.5)
- W.C. Fields (9.2)
- The Boston Red Sox (11.46)
- Nolan Ryan (11.34)
- Marilyn Monroe (12.47)
- Abbot and Costello Meet the Monsters (12.72)
- Robert Redford (14.71)
- Electric Company (15.5)
- Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin (15.29)
- Jean Harlowe (18.14)
- Clark Gable (18.14)
- Carole Lombard (18.14)
- Daryl F. Zanuck (18.14)
- "Bad Moon Rising," John Fogerty (22.134)
- The Waltons (32.1)
- Secret Agent Man (34.17)
- The Avengers (34.18)
- Al Green (38.26, 27)
- Edie Cochran (39.1)