Suggested Reading

[Clint Staples]

A few more things to throw into the mix.

C.S. Freidman, Black Sun Rising, though in what is essentially a fantasy
setting, has an interesting take on the sacrifice and the power to be
derived from it. The tone of the entire book is also very grim and suits
the UA setting (as I understand without having yet seen the book).

If Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere has not been mentioned, it is worth a look
for archetypes and supporting characters, as well as a society which
would suit UA. 

For a Post Modernist Satan - try Kim Newman's collection of related
short stories - The Amazing Doctor Shade. Great pulp story feel set now
or in the very near future. And a creepy pulp antihero who becomes (or
simply is) the Devil, a criminal magnate and media mogul all at once. I
think he also appears in another Newman book, The Quorum, but I haven't
read it yet.

    
And to add to James Dyer's great list of recommended films:
On Post Modern horror - Machine vs. Man - Metropolis (the subtitled
silent film, not the trashy pop-music remake of the 70s).

Slightly more traditional horror - Nomads, starring Pierce Brosnan.
Cultural antropologist, an archetypal seeker himself, searches for the
'outsider' a concept that he thinks is universal in primitive society
(another great archetype). He stops looking and settles down in the big
city only to find it. Worse yet, it finds him.

On serial killers - A German film from the '30s called 'M' starring
Peter Lorre, and directed (I think) by Fritz Lang, the visionary behing
Metropolis.

That's all I can come up whith right now, but there must be more.

Clint Staples