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William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

About madness, set in otherworld and british isles.

series4 books2000

Fantasy, challenging 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.”
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The Etched CityNovel

K. J. Bishopstandalone novel2003

Fantasy, about art and artists.

“Translations into Italian, Polish, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch, Romanian, French, Traditional Chinese, German and Czech have appeared.”
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AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Fantasy.

“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.”
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The Arabian NightmareNovel

Robert Irwinstandalone novel1983

Fantasy, mysterious in tone, set in middle east.

“The Arabian Nightmare was inspired by The Arabian Nights, as well as the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.”
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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Fantasy and gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

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