Gothic novels (18th-century onwards), the Romantics (especially Shelley and Keats), mermaids (cliched, I know, but I can't help myself), X-Files stand alone episodes (none of that alien stuff, please!), Nick Cave, Sirius Black

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dead Can Dance, P.J. Harvey, Fields of the Nephilim, Velvet Revolver, Japan, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Smashing Pumpkins, Siouxie and the Banshees, Mojave 3

Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Draftsman's Contract, Mulholland Drive

Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Harry Potter, ghost stories by E.F.Benson and M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas