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Weird and Weirder Fiction

Based on tag: Weird Fiction
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1

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,682 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: hailelib, paradoxosalpha, roby72, Rennee, AndreasJ, thecoroner, andomck, alex68, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, paulboye, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,481 members

618 reviews

4

14 Members: angelikat, SqueakyChu, paradoxosalpha, LittleTaiko, roby72, merrystar, Rennee, thecoroner, alex68, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

3

American Gods {original}

33,072 members

916 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hailelib, SqueakyChu, melonbrawl, bestem, andomck, trisarahdactyl, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, edbookshelf1013, ManWithAnAgenda,paradoxosalpha ,jeffza

4

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,179 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: paradoxosalpha, melonbrawl, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, edbookshelf1013, paulboye

5

24,490 members

567 reviews

4.1

10 Members: melonbrawl, bestem, merrystar, quigui, andomck, BruceCoulson, electrice, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,390 members

110 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, quigui, thecoroner, andomck, alex68, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

7

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

944 members

13 reviews

4.2

7 Members: paradoxosalpha, AndreasJ, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, edbookshelf1013, paulboye

8

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,118 members

293 reviews

4

6 Members: hailelib, DB71991, Bluewolf0411, BruceCoulson, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

9

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,269 members

252 reviews

4.1

8 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, paulboye, ManWithAnAgenda

10

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,175 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: angelikat, paradoxosalpha, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013, paulboye

11

by Gustav Meyrink

1,767 members

43 reviews

3.8

8 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, JqnOC, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

12

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,614 members

123 reviews

4

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, paulboye, ManWithAnAgenda,

13

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,300 members

59 reviews

4

6 Members: paradoxosalpha, BruceCoulson, JqnOC, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013, paulboye

14

Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

by Arthur Machen

175 members

4 reviews

4.2

6 Members: angelikat, paradoxosalpha, tros, BruceCoulson, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

15

19,567 members

678 reviews

4

6 Members: paradoxosalpha, bestem, trisarahdactyl, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

16

5,230 members

56 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe, kara.shamy,

17

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

by H. P. Lovecraft

2,858 members

27 reviews

4.2

5 Members: paradoxosalpha, AndreasJ, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013

18

The Gormenghast Trilogy

by Mervyn Peake

4,333 members

66 reviews

4.1

5 Members: melonbrawl, andomck, alex68, Alex_Maybe, jeffza

19

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror {4 stories}

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,750 members

26 reviews

4

6 Members: paradoxosalpha, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013,ManWithAnAgenda

20

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

801 members

27 reviews

4

5 Members: paradoxosalpha, melonbrawl, tros, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,584 members

365 reviews

4.2

5 Members: SqueakyChu, andomck, alex68, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe

22

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories [9 stories, ed. Joshi]

by Algernon Blackwood

514 members

2 reviews

4.1

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

23

The Great God Pan and Other Weird Stories

by Arthur Machen

22 members

1 review

½ 4.3

4 Members: angelikat, knerd.knitter, tros, Alex_Maybe

24

19,497 members

234 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

1,674 members

9 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, andomck, alex68, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Aldo Palazzeschi

62 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

27

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,241 members

209 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,612 members

33 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Bluewolf0411, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013

29

The Tomb and Other Tales

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,112 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, DB71991, ahef1963, paulboye

30

by Stephen King

6,792 members

72 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: JqnOC, electrice, ahef1963

31

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,432 members

380 reviews

4

5 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963,electrice

32

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,025 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, BruceCoulson, ahef1963, edbookshelf1013

33

The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

1,427 members

46 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, BruceCoulson, Alex_Maybe

34

Cthulhu : the mythos and kindred horrors

by Robert E. Howard

332 members

4 reviews

3.9

4 Members: angelikat, paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

35

Shoggoth's Old Peculiar

192 members

7 reviews

4.2

4 Members: angelikat, paradoxosalpha, BruceCoulson, edbookshelf1013

36

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,523 members

139 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Alex_Maybe

37

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

14,089 members

190 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

38

by Clark Ashton Smith

202 members

1 review

3.9

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

39

La-Bas (Down There)

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

1,339 members

29 reviews

3.8

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, thecoroner, Alex_Maybe, paulboye

40

The City & The City

by China Miéville

6,079 members

348 reviews

4

3 Members: andomck, Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

1,804 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: angelikat, paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

42

The White People and Other Stories

by Arthur Machen

210 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Three Impostors and Other Stories

by Arthur Machen

315 members

3 reviews

3.8

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros, Alex_Maybe

44

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,216 members

313 reviews

4

2 Members: quigui, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,173 members

121 reviews

4

3 Members: andomck, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe

46

The King of Elfland's Daughter

by Lord Dunsany

2,232 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, merrystar, Alex_Maybe

47

The Wasp Factory

6,956 members

199 reviews

3.8

3 Members: knerd.knitter, alex68, ahef1963

48

by Ray Bradbury

52,324 members

970 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

49

by China Miéville

3,487 members

174 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, melonbrawl, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Gustav Meyrink

248 members

7 reviews

3.9

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, thecoroner, Alex_Maybe

51

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

4,101 members

37 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, paulboye

52

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,303 members

86 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

53

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,164 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68,

54

507 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: angelikat, paulboye

55

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,761 members

414 reviews

4.1

3 Members: knerd.knitter, ahef1963, Alex_Maybe,Bluewolf0411

56

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,037 members

14 reviews

4.2

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, ahef1963

57

Collected Ghost Stories

2,231 members

44 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Alex_Maybe, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

9,472 members

196 reviews

4.1

Member: knerd.knitter

59

by China Miéville

4,935 members

124 reviews

4.1

Member: mkbird

60

M31: A Family Romance

by Stephen Wright

118 members

½ 3.4

Member: Alex_Maybe

61

The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

923 members

9 reviews

4.2

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, ahef1963

62

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

by H. P. Lovecraft

766 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, ahef1963

63

Teatro Grottesco

by Thomas Ligotti

699 members

17 reviews

4

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, paulboye

64

by George Orwell

58,442 members

854 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

65

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

984 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, ahef1963

66

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,053 members

363 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

67

by Clark Ashton Smith

256 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, tros

68

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

680 members

14 reviews

4.1

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, thecoroner

69

Our Lady of Darkness

by Fritz Leiber

544 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Alex_Maybe, paulboye

70

by Thomas Ligotti

332 members

5 reviews

4.1

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, andomck

71

The Stepford Wives

2,987 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

72

97 members

4

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

73

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,655 members

753 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

74

The Azathoth Cycle

by Robert M. Price

124 members

3

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, paulboye

75

by J. G. Ballard

3,459 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

76

Principia Discordia

by Malaclypse the Younger

1,471 members

19 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Alex_Maybe, paulboye

77

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,770 members

311 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

78

by Lauren Beukes

1,494 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: electrice

79

The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey

by Edward Gorey

662 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,141 members

690 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

81

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

by Robert E. Howard

1,547 members

27 reviews

4.1

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, andomck, Alex_Maybe,Bluewolf0411

82

by Chuck Palahniuk

18,950 members

321 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

83

The New York Trilogy

9,643 members

154 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

84

The Evolution of the Weird Tale

62 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

85

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

15,985 members

163 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

86

Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

by Robert E. Howard

425 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

87

In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales

by Lord Dunsany

463 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

88

Songs Of A Dead Dreamer

by Thomas Ligotti

346 members

7 reviews

3.9

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

89

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

6,155 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, alex68

90

The Rim of Morning

by William Sloane

341 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Xothic Legend Cycle

123 members

1 review

½ 2.5

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, paulboye

92

by Gustav Meyrink

227 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, paulboye

93

The Complete Pegāna

by Lord Dunsany

145 members

3.8

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

94

The Mind Parasites

by Colin Wilson

533 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

95

by Fritz Leiber

632 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

96

The Devil Rides Out

by Dennis Wheatley

407 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

97

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

by Robert E. Howard

393 members

5 reviews

4.1

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

98

by Peter Ackroyd

1,831 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: melonbrawl

99

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1,383 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

by Peter Straub

257 members

3 reviews

3.9

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, Alex_Maybe

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