[ascagnel_]

This is incorrect —- American horror novels, particularly those by Stephen King and Dean Koontz, are the primary inspiration for Silent Hill. The game tips it’s hand on this —- many, if not all, of the streets in the first game are named after the authors (and in the case of King, they used his Bachmann pseudonym).

That said, the Centralia fire is a primary inspiration for the 2006 film adaptation of Silent Hill.

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[itsananderson]

Oh, I had read about Centralia being the inspiration for the movie and assumed (or perhaps saw someone incorrectly claim) that it was also the inspiration for the game. Thanks for the correction!