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Originally Posted by Angra
In what book?
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For one thing, horror's 100 Greatest Books edited by Stephen King and Kim Newman includes the Trial. The politics and the persecution complex show an influence on films like M. The transformation and dehumanization of Gregor Samsa in the Metamorphosis heralds a lot of similar situations in the future. Need I point out how fond Cronenberg is of insectoid imagery for example? In Joe Hill King's 20th Century Ghosts are several stories pointing out the genre's debt to Kafka, including a blatant riff on the Metamorphosis. Inside the Penal Colony contains a lot of horror. Lastly, he made fiction weirder, more expressionistic and more tense, creating an atmosphere for movies like Eraserhead. Oh, and the HWA lists Kafka's work among their favorite books here:
http://www.hcpl.lib.tx.us/booklists/hwabest.htm