This is a brief list of all possible literary allusions to the novellas in both the DOD and NieR franchise.

Notice that some titles below currently have no link to their respective literary allusions. This is because I have no idea what, if any, allusion they are meant to represent. At least with The Fire of Prometheus we can assume it’s somewhat based upon Greek mythology. Likewise, the newer novellas from NieR:Automata have no apparent literary allusion to my knowledge.

Grimoire NieR

• And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, 1939
• The Stone Flower, by Pavel Bazhov, 1938
  (Russian: Каменный цветок, tr. Kamennyj tsvetok)
• The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, 1830
  (French: Le Rouge et le Noir)
• A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905
• The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, 1924
  (German: Der Zaubergerg)
• Witches’ Sabbath, by Paula Allardyce, 1961
• The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen, 1837
  (Danish: Den lille havfrue)
• Strait Is the Gate, by André Gide, 1909
  (French: La Porte Étroite)
• Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne, 1873
  (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours)
• The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1912

World Inside – DOD 10th Anniversary Box

• Song of 14 Years
• The Gardens of Light, by Amin Maalouf, 1991
  (French: Les jar dins de lumière)
• The Fire of Prometheus