Blink was inspired by 'Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee". In this poem Poe makes reference to a lover taking up bed with the deceased body of his youthful love. Necrophilia was in fact a common theme in many of Poe's works. "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea."
