Nowadays when thinking about anything Halloween or spooky, it's no surprise that Tim Burton is one of the first names that comes to mind. Heavily inspired by Edward Gorey, Burton really took the framework made by Gorey and expanded it to make it his own. Where Gorey left more ambiguity in his narratives, Tim Burton really leaned into the scary and peculiar side of his stories. One example of Gorey's inspiration in Burton's work could be seen in one of his most popular movies The Nightmare Before Christmas. Throughout the movie, characters are around gothic architecture and extravagant clothing. It's also apparent that his characters tend to have a poise similar to Gorey's, seen in books like The Gilded Bat.

Immensely influenced by Edward Gorey is the author Daniel Handler, otherwise known as Lemony Snicket. Snicket is the writer behind the collection of children’s books titled A Series of Unfortunate Events which follows three children who terrible things happen. In an interview Handler talked about how Gorey inspired his interest in writing as a child, and similar to Gorey's work on The Gashlycrumb Tinies or A Limerick we see stories involving tragedy befalling children. Edward Gorey also inspired his use of pen names, which he believed to be part of the mystery behind Edward Gorey as if he somehow lived in the world of his books. Familiar with other artists inspired by Gorey, his characters were also surrounded by the same Edwardian and Victorian styles which Gorey famously used.

English writer/creative Neil Gaiman was heavily influenced by the work of Edward Gorey. As the creator of stories like The Sandman, Stardust, American Gods, and of course Coraline, Gaiman has directly talked about his inspiration from Gorey and his impacted his work. When creating Coraline, he continuously thought to himself that this is a "Gorey" story and to him, Edward Gorey was almost more about the attitude of the story than what the story is. This means you're telling the story you want to tell, and though most will think it's too weird there will be one person who sees the beauty in what you're doing. Showing the impact of Edward Gorey wasn't strictly stylistically to artists like Gaiman, but rather he signified a willingness to be weird and strange because that's what he wanted to do whether others would listen or not.