The early scenes in this episode - featuring the stranded couple menaced by sinister tumbleweeds - bear a strong resemblance to Algernon Blackwood's seminal horror story "The Willows".
That rugaru story bears some resemblance to a Native American version of the wendigo legend related in a short story by Algernon Blackwood.
Blackwood | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Blackwood, Caerphilly | Flowers for Algernon | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Blackwood's Magazine | Nina Blackwood | Algernon Blackwood | Richard Blackwood | Blackwood (band) | Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland | Blackwood, South Australia | Blackwood River | The Richard Blackwood Show | Lord Algernon Percy | Henry Blackwood | Easley Blackwood, Jr. | Andrus, Blackwood and Company | Algernon Sidney | Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset | Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley | Algernon Kingscote | William Blackwood | ''The Founding of Australia by Captain Arthur Phillip RN Sydney Cove January 26th 1788'' a 1939 oil painting by Algernon Talmage | Telly "Leatherface" Blackwood | Sarah Blackwood | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Francis Price Blackwood | Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan |
The first theosophical lodge in Canada was founded on February 16, 1891 in Toronto by Albert Smythe, Emily Stowe, Augusta Stowe-Gullen and Algernon Blackwood.
Hundreds of genre author entries are provided, including: William Beckford by E.F. Bleiler, Ambrose Bierce and Algernon Blackwood by Jack Sullivan, Ramsey Campbell by Robert Hadji, Robert W. Chambers by T. E. D. Klein, James Herbert by Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson by Sullivan, Stephen King by Don Herron, Arthur Machen by Klein, Ann Radcliffe by Devendra P. Varma, and Peter Straub by Patricia Skarda.