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series4 books2000

Fantasy, 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.”
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The House on the BorderlandNovel

William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

Horror, dark in tone, set in otherworld.

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Fantasy, 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.”
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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Fantasy and gothic, dark in tone.

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

VenissSeries

series12 books1990

Eerie in tone.

Start with The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

series4 books2014

Science fiction and horror, set in our world and contemporary.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
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Start with Annihilation →

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