I've been a game master for over 40 years, starting in 4th grade way back in 1981 and in that time I have run games for hundreds of players in dozens of different game systems.
Big Trouble in Little China, Casablanca, Forbidden Planet, Grosse Pointe Blank, Knightriders (1981), Miller's Crossing, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Princess Bride
Firefly, Fringe, Star Trek TOS, Taskmaster.
Robert Lynn Asprin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Davis Eddings, Guy Gavriel Kay, Katherine Kurtz, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin,Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Roger Zelazny