Blackmoor reading list

[Rafael]

Rather than that, I'd like to know the impact of stuff he actually is sure to have known - like, probably "Thieves World", given the AiF angle, or stuff he directly references to, like the Beagle.

I'm not really familiar with Thieves World at all, so I can't comment much. Seems likely though.

As with Horseclans, one must check dates. Thieves World was first published in 1979, which means it can't have had any impact on the 1971 campaign.

Yepp. I think any books released later than 1975 (DA himself named the Horseclan series, mind you) do not need to be taken into consideration.

For consistency's sake, I would say we don't name any book written before the end of WWI (1918/1919), to facilitate a distinction between what might be possible direct literary sources (Howard, Moorcock, Leiber), and what might have been simply a response to the common media tropes of the time (like, Dracula-ish vampires, mutants, spaceships, etc).