Unless you were in the MFA program at Columbia when it was being ran by Ben Marcus, in which case your first novel will sound alarmingly like Ben Marcus with a hangover. (I don't mean this as an insult, it's just that these things tend to happen and if you know you know, and if you don't, you don't.)
Each writer has his own voice. It should never sound like everyone else's voice.
You can be inspired by Tolkien, Stoker, and Herbert. You don't have to sound just like them.
Unless you were in the MFA program at Columbia when it was being ran by Ben Marcus, in which case your first novel will sound alarmingly like Ben Marcus with a hangover. (I don't mean this as an insult, it's just that these things tend to happen and if you know you know, and if you don't, you don't.)