Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A farkon, Holopainen ya fi rubuce rubuce game da labaran almara da almara, kuma sau da yawa yana amfani da nassoshi ga "metaphysics da yanayi". Litattafan almara musamman suna da babban tasiri a kan kalmomin Nightwish. Waƙoƙi kamar "Wishmaster", "Elvenpath", da "Wanderlust" suna yin nassoshi a fili ga litattafan almara, a wannan yanayin jerin Dragonlance da J. R. R. Tolkien's Ubangijin Zobba. "FantasMic" daga Wishmaster kyauta ce ta kai tsaye ga Walt Disney da fina-finai masu rai na Disney, waɗanda Holopainen ya ce suna cikin tasirinsa. Dark Passion Play ya nuna komawa ga batun almara tare da waƙoƙi kamar "Sahara", "Duk wanda ya kawo Dare" da "Kwana 7 ga Wolves", wanda ya dogara ne akan littafin Stephen King na Wolves of the Calla, littafi na biyar a cikin jerin Hasumiyar Hasumiyar. An kira waƙar The Poet and the Pendulum sashe na farko "The White Lands of Empathica", wanda yake magana ne game da littafi na bakwai a cikin jerin Hasumiyar Duhu.A cikin shekaru, kalmomin sun zama na sirri. "Dead Boy's Poem" daga Wishmaster wani yanki ne mai cike da motsin rai, wanda Holopainen ya kira "gado da [...] wasiya ga duk duniya. [...] Ina so in yi wannan waƙa kafin in mutu domin ina so in gaya wa dukan duniya abin da nake tunani da kuma ji. Yana bayyana abubuwa da yawa game da kaina". Ci gaban mutum ya zama mafi bayyane akan Wishmaster-mai maye gurbin Century Child. Turunen yana tunanin cewa kalmomin ba su da alaƙa da "ƙasar mafarki da muka saba da ita, amma tare da mummunan gaskiyar rayuwa. "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" (a Ingilishi, "Mutuwa ta zama Artist") daga Da zarar ya bayyana kwarewar hasara da tasirinsa a kan fasaha, "Nemo" yana magana ne game da jin cewa an rasa shi, yayin da "Gidajen Matattu" ke magana game da gwagwarmayar toshewar mai zane-zane Holopainen ya sha wahala. "Jinin Creek Mary" ya dogara ne akan labarin Dee Brown na wannan sunan, wanda ya gabatar da yanayin 'yan asalin Amurka a ƙarshen karni na 19.  Tambaya: Menene Holopainen ya rubuta game da matakan farko?
almara da kuma fantasy jigogi