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The House on the BorderlandNovel

William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908

Horror and weird fiction, dark in tone.

GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

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 →

Dream CycleSeries

series26 books1919

Horror.

Start with The White Ship →

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging and 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 →

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Weird fiction, 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 →

The Island of Dr. MoreauSeries

series12 books1896

Science fiction, set in 19th century.

“Taken together, the group traces one unsettling premise across more than a century of speculative fiction rather than forming a single ongoing story.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Island of Dr. Moreau →

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