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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Fantasy and gothic, dark in tone, 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 →

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“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 →

Black BraneNovel

Michael Ciscostandalone novel2025

Weird fiction.

The House on the BorderlandNovel

William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

Dark in tone, set in otherworld and british isles.

The Wretch of the SunNovel

Michael Ciscostandalone novel2016

Weird fiction.

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Fantasy, 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 →

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