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GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic, dark in tone.

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

Start with Titus Groan →

Lud-in-the-MistNovel

Hope Mirrleesstandalone novel1926

About fae and art and artists.

The Night LandSeries

series5 books1912

“Framed as a seventeenth-century narrator's vision of that future, the story follows his far-future self on a journey out into the night to find a woman he believes is his lost love reincarnated.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Dream of X →

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Weird fiction, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

Where the Evil DwellsNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1982

“Since ancient days, the Empty Lands had stood between the eastern barbarians and the two-thousand-year-old civilization of Rome and the Church.”
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