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Influences
Tanith Lee is influenced by multiple genres, including other writers, music, movies, and "small things” . Her Flat Earth Series was inspired by a game she played with her mother; some of her other works are influenced by fairy tales her mother told her. Her husband, a fellow writer, is also an “idea factory.” Much of her work comes from “small things” rather than major inspirations.

Authors
Lee is inspired by writers and playwrights, including Graham Greene, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Angela Carter, Jane Gaskell, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Anton Chekov, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Ibsen, August Strindberg, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Bunin, James, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault, Jean Rhys, John Fowles, John le Carré, Brónte family, E.M. Forster, W. Somerset Maugham, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Durrell, Elroy Flecker, and Ted Hughes. Lee considers Virginia Woolf and C.S. Lewis to be very influential on her from a young age.

Other Genres
Lee is also influenced by painters, movies, television, and music. She cites Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich (whose symphonies influenced certain scenes in Anackire), George Frideric Handel, Annie Lennox and Johnny Cash as musical influences. Film influences include Ben-Hur (1959 film),Caesar and Cleopatra (film) (with Vivien Leigh and Claude Raines), Coppola’s Dracula, The Brotherhood of the Wolf (subtitled version), Olivier’s Hamlet Hamlet (1948 film). The Quatermass and TV films that have inspired Lee are Forbidden Planet, Plunkett & Macleane, and The Seventh Seal. The TV play Danton's Death, inspired her to write her French Historical Novel. The painters that have inspired her include Vincent van Gogh, Cotman, J. M. W. Turner, Gustav Klimt, Rousseau, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and several pre-Raphaelites.