The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors.
Ever since I was young I've been into scary and dark things. When I was thirteen I read The Stand so Stephen King was a real big influence on me. From there I got into other writers like Peter Straub, John Farris, Charles L. Grant, Ramsey Campbell, Anne Rice and a whole list of others.