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Lud-in-the-MistNovel
Hope Mirrleesstandalone novel1926
About fae and art and artists.
AmbergrisSeries
series20 books1996
Set in 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 →
Prospero and Roger BaconSeries
series2 books1969
completed
Dark in tone, about wizards and quests.
“The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs's only adult fantasy novel, follows two aging wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, as they track down a rising magical evil that has started to unravel the world around them.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Face in the Frost →
New CrobuzonSeries
series4 books2000
Challenging and 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, about madness, set in otherworld.
The Etched CityNovel
K. J. Bishopstandalone novel2003
About art and artists, set in big city.
“Translations into Italian, Polish, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch, Romanian, French, Traditional Chinese, German and Czech have appeared.”
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