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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue

Start with Titus Groan →

The House on the BorderlandNovel

William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

Horror and weird fiction, set in otherworld.

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Perdido Street Station →

The Eating WoodsSeries

series2 books2024

Fantasy and dark fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Anathema →

Tales from the Sinister CitySeries

series4 books2007

“Each book stands as its own dark, fairy-tale-style mystery rather than continuing a single plot, unified by setting and tone more than by recurring characters.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Black Book of Secrets →

Tales of the Flat EarthSeries

series14 books1978

completed

Fantasy, dark in tone, about demons, set in secondary world.

“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue

Start with Night's Master →

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