Five Inspirations: Kuro

Whether it is mood, or narrative, or visual style, these are good inspirations for future Kuro games.

Cloud Atlas

Everything is interconnected, even events from a very different time.

Haruki Murakami
Strange events building, sometimes to nothing.
And sometimes, that "nothing" is exactly everything.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Sometimes the worst horrors are thing you can only hear, but never see.



Siren
Seeing through another's eyes can be an awesome twist, especially if it is always of a person who wants to kill you.

Urban Legends Always Work

The Hitobashira alone is already ripe for loads of stories.  Read more of them here.