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New CrobuzonSeries
series4 books2000
Dark in tone.
“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue
Start with Perdido Street Station →
The House on the BorderlandNovel
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
Horror, dark in tone, set in otherworld.
AmbergrisSeries
series20 books1996
Fantasy and weird fiction, set in secondary world and big city.
“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Saints and Madmen →
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Gothic, dark in tone.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
The Etched CityNovel
K. J. Bishopstandalone novel2003
Fantasy and weird fiction, eerie in tone, about art and artists, set in secondary world and big city.
“Translations into Italian, Polish, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch, Romanian, French, Traditional Chinese, German and Czech have appeared.”
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Our Lady of DarknessNovel
Fritz Leiberstandalone novel1977
Urban fantasy, set in our world and north america.