Many people who've passed through the town of Silent Hill have realized that there's a significance to the street names - they're all named after well-known sf/fantasy/horror writers. But upon closer examination, it becomes clear that the pattern goes deeper than that. In fact, all the authors mentioned have written novels that revolve around common, everyday towns in danger. To wit:

• John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
• Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Robert Charles Wilson: Mysterium
• Dean Koontz: Phantoms, Midnight
• Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World
• James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia
• Dan Simmons: Summer of Night
• Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King): The Regulators, Salem's Lot
• Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives
• Robert Matheson: I Am Legend
• Robert Bloch: American Gothic (?)
• Jack Finney: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain

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