Radcliffe's elaborate description of landscapes was influenced by the painters Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa.
In the passage quoted below, Sears also quotes an earlier description of the circle by Ann Radcliffe (Mrs. Radcliffe).
Ann Arbor | Ann | Ann Perkins | Ann-Margret | Radcliffe College | Daniel Radcliffe | Carol Ann Duffy | Lesley Ann Warren | Ruth Ann Minner | Ann Widdecombe | Radcliffe | Ann Coulter | Cape Ann | Ann Richards | Ann Peebles | Ann Druyan | Paula Radcliffe | Ann Sheridan | Ann Kok | Sarah Ann Glover | Elizabeth Ann Seton | Ann Sothern | Ann Shulgin | Ann Romney | Ann-Marie MacDonald | St Ann | Sim Ann | Lee Ann Womack | Judy Ann Santos | Ann Rule |
Passages of Phyllida's fiction are rendered as pastiches of the great Gothic tradition (e.g. Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Clara Reeve, Mary Shelley) the language and conventions of which are at once mocked and relished.
Féval returned to the theme of vampirism with La Ville Vampire (1867) the ultimate literary ancestor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which the protagonist is Gothic novel writer Ann Radcliffe herself.
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.