Rather than a comprehensive list of all applicable titles (which would no doubt fill this entire book), the list below is a selection of titles that inspired and informed the designers in writing Dark•Matter. Enjoy!
Addison, Charles G. The History of the Knights Templars
Baigent, Michael. Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Baigent, Michael. The Temple and the Lodge
Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace
Brookesmith, Peter. UFO The Complete Sightings
Castleden, Rodney. Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete
Coe, Michael; Dean Snow; and Elizabeth Benson. Atlas of Ancient America
Daraul, Arkon. A History of Secret Societies
Douglas, John. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
Fort, Charles. The Book of the Damned
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Goldman, Jane. The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (Vols. 1 & 2)
Grun, Bernard. Timetables of History
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience
Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods
Howard, Michael. The Occult Conspiracy : Secret Societies—Their Influence and Power in World History
Keel, John. The Mothman Prophesies
Keith, Jim. Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order
Keith, Jim. Black Helicopters II: Endgame Strategies
Keith, Jim. Mind Control, World Control
Kovach, Sue. Hidden Files: Law Enforcement’s True Case Stories of the Unexplained and Paranormal
LaVey, Anton Szander. The Satanic Bible
Lyne, William R. Space Aliens From the Pentagon
MacKey, Albert G. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
Manning, Jeane and Dr. Nick Begich. Angels Don’t Play this HAARP
Mannix, Daniel P. Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
Moench, Doug. Big Book of Conspiracies
Moench, Doug. Big Book of the Unexplained
National Insecurity Council, The. It’s A Conspiracy!
Partner, Peter. The Knights Templar and their Myth
Posey, Carl & Gahan Wilson. Big Book of Weirdoes
Rodman, Selden & Carole Cleaver. Spirits of the Night: The Vaudun Gods of Haiti
Segel, Binjamin W. A Lie and a Libel: History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Spence, Lewis. An Encyclopedia of Occultism
Temple, Robert K. G. The Sirius Mystery
Thomas, Kenn and Lincoln Lawrence. Mind Control, Oswald, and JFK
Vankin, Jonathan and John Whalen. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Von Daniken, Erich. Chariots of the Gods?
Wilgus, Neal. The Illuminoids
Wilson, Robert Anton. Everything Is Under Control
Bear, Greg. Blood Music
Cobb, James H. Choosers of the Slain
Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain
Crichton, Michael. Sphere
Crowley, Aleister. The Book of Thoth
Crowley, Aleister. 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings
Eco, Umberto. Foucault’s Pendulum
Finney, Jack. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere
Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague
MacAvoy, R.A. Tea with the Black Dragon
Newman, Kim. The Bloody Red Baron
Reaves, Michael. Voodoo Child
Rushkoff, Douglass. Ecstasy Club
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash
Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon
Wilson, Colin. The Mind Parasites
Wilson, Colin. The Philosopher’s Stone
Wilson, Colin. The God of the Labyrinth
Wilson, Robert Anton & Robert Shea. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Wllson, Robert Anton. The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Trilogy
Ellis, Warren. Planetary
Ennis, Garth. Hellblazer
Ennis, Garth. Preacher
Ennis, Garth. The Unknown Soldier
Gaiman, Neil. Sandman
Grant, Alan. Batman: The Abduction
Moore, Alan. Swamp Thing
Moore, Alan. Watchmen
Morrison, Grant. The Invisibles
Fortean Times
Probe
Strange
Steamshovel Press
Uncensored UFO Reports
The Unopened Files
The Abyss
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
All the President’s Men
The Arrival
Boys from Brazil
Chain Reaction
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Communion
Conspiracy Theory
The Conversation
Dark City
Enemy of the State
The Entity
The Exorcist
Fallen
Fire in the Sky
The Haunting
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
JFK
The Keep
La Femme Nikita
The Manchurian Candidate
Manhunter
The Matrix
Men In Black
Mercury Rising
Odessa Files
Omen 1, 2, and 3
The Philadelphia Experiment
Pi
Prophesy
Repo Man
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Silence of the Lambs
The Specialist
Species
Them
The Thing
The Thing From Another Planet
Village of the Damned
Brimstone
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dark Skies
Millennium
The X-Files
Alien Chaser (www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/8827)
Blather (www.blather.net)
CIA Electronic Document Release Center (www.foia.ucia.gov)
Conspire.com (www.conspire.com)
Disinformation (www.disinfo.com)
Dreams of the Great Earth Changes (www.greatdreams.com)
Ethnologue Language Index www.sil.org/ethnologue)
Forbidden Science (www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271)
Forensics and Crime Scene Investigations (www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/1035/formain.html)
History of Egypt (interoz.com/egypt/ehistory.htm)
Impropaganda (www.impropaganda.com)
Mysterious Places (www.mysteriousplaces.com/index.html)
Parascope (www.parascope.com)