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The Book of All HoursSeries
series2 books2005
Challenging in tone.
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LilithNovel
George MacDonaldstandalone novel1895
Reflective in tone.
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Gothic, set in secondary world.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
GrimusNovel
Salman Rushdiestandalone novel1975
Literary & general, about immortality and quests, set in islands.
“After drinking a mysterious fluid that grants him immortality, the young Axona man Flapping Eagle sets out on a centuries-long search for his vanished sister, drifting through identities and eras as the decades pass without aging him.”
from the catalogue
The House on the BorderlandNovel
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
Horror and weird fiction, about madness.
PiranesiNovel
Susanna Clarkestandalone novel2020
Literary & general, mysterious in tone, about amnesia.
“A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”
from the catalogue