Here's a pretty tale. During the mid 19th C vampire craze, Leo Tolstoy wrote a vampire story in 1841, which was poorly received. His cousin Alexei wrote one too: "The Family of the Vourdalak", that being a Slavic word for vampire. It wasn't published until 1884, but... (1/3)
... supplied the basis for Mario Bava's 1963 horror anthology movie Black Sabbath, one of the late-career appearances by Boris Karloff (who was born in the house that is now my local chippie). The Birmingham heavy-metal band Earth decided to change their name to that in 1969. 2/3
"What Mario Bava did with the horror film in Black Sabbath, I was gonna do with the crime film," said Quentin Tarantino. The result was Pulp Fiction. Who knew that movie was inspired by the Tolstoys? 3/3
Here you go. The fish & chips aren't bad either. 
