(Spoilers Extended) Love the Lovecraft references and homages in the books When reading the novels and accompanying, it's cool to see the references and homages to Lovecraft's mythos. Things like the corpse city, the Deep Ones, entities entering dreams and influencing an individual, and the Church of Starry Wisdom. There's others, but I love how Martin references the works of another great author, and the head honcho on cosmic horror.