"The story's themes were inspired by Lewis Carroll, quantum physics, Jung, and Crowley; its visual style by surrealism, Eastern European creepiness, Cocteau, Artaud, Švankmajer, the Brothers Quay, etc."
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arkham_Asylum%3A_A_Serious_House_on_Serious_Earth