A Goodreads user asked Thomas Olde Heuvelt:

Hex was amazing and I want to ask who's your favourite writer and which book you think changed your whole vision of the world?

Thomas Olde Heuvelt Thank you for your question, Andressa, and sorry for answering late! Really happy you loved HEX. Formative novels for me in my childhood were Roald Dahl's The Witches, which I read when I was 7, and Stephen King's Pet Sematary, which I read at 11. The latter was my first really grim adult horror novel (okay, I DID read Dracula and Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde earlier...) and it changed my life... mostly because I understood the father's pain and would have made the exact same choices. Then later on, my favorite novel became Life of Pi by Yann Martel, because it's such a beautiful story about the power of stories. I still love King, and Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors too.

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