Two of my favorite authors are Roald Dahl and Isaac Asimov. Dahl might be known for his childrenβs books, but I love how dark and twisted his adult short stories can be, full of sharp irony and unsettling endings. Asimov, on the other hand, pulls me into big, intelligent sci-fi worlds with robots, AI, and crumbling empires, always asking deeper questions about logic, humanity, and the future. I think Man from the South and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy will always inspire me...how about you guys? I also like a good Gothic Horror Novel : The one I am working on is called: Harrowfield (I write as Athena - the goddess of knowledge) Harrowfield When archivist Maren Calloway is hired to catalogue the private collection of a decommissioned Victorian asylum in the English Cotswolds, she expects damp boxes and fading paperwork. But the archive doesn't cooperate. Patient journals don't match official records. Architectural drawings show rooms with no doors. And the deeper she digs, the more the building responds. A gothic horror novel about institutional amnesia, the architecture of forgetting, and seven patients who vanished from the record but never left the stone.....