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The Weird Bookshelf

The following is a list of fiction, which might be described as imaginative, speculative or weird. It represents my perfect bookshelf, although it is constantly being updated as further examples come to my attention.

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Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor

Peter Ackroyd - Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem

Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee

Peter Ackroyd - First Light

Peter Ackroyd - The Canterbury Tales

Robert Aickman - The Collected Strange Stories

Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword

Poul Anderson - Three Hearts & Three Lions

J.G. Ballard - The Unlimited Dream Company

William Beckford - Vathek

E.F. Benson - Collected Ghost Stories

K.J. Bishop - The Etched City

Algernon Blackwood - Collected Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur

Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs

Robert W. Chambers - The King In Yellow

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins - The Woman In White

Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising Quarter

John Crowley - Little Big

Avram Davidson - Limekiller

Avram Davidson - The Phoenix & the Mirror

Avram Davidson - The Island Under the Earth

Robertson Davies - The Deptford Trilogy

Robertson Davies - The Cunning Man

Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroborous

J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas

J. Sheridan le Fanu - Madame Crawl's Ghost & Other Stories

J. Sheridan le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly

Geoffrey Farrington - The Revenants

Ronald Fraser - Flower Phantoms

Ronald Fraser - Rose Anstey

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Alan Garner - Thursbitch

Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brinsgamen

Alan Garner - The Moon of Gomrath

Alan Garner - Elidor

Alan Garner - Red Shift

Alan Garner - The Owl Service

Jeremias Gotthelf - The Black Spider

Stefan Grabinski - The Dark Domain

Alasdair Gray - Lanark: A Life In Four Books

Ursula le Guin - The Earthsea Quintet

M. John Harrison - Viriconium

Herman Hesse - Demian

Herman Hesse - Siddartha

Herman Hesse - Narcissus & Goldmund

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf

Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Susan Hill - The Woman In Black

Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker

William Hope Hodgson - The House On the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki the Ghost Finder

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood

Robert Holdstock - Lavondyss

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Three Miles Up

J.K. Huysmans - Against the Grain

J.K. Huysmans - The Damned

Robert Irwin - Satan Wants Me

Robert Irwin - The Arabian Nightmare

Robert Irwin - The Limits of Vision

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw

M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories

Franz Kafka - The Trial

Fritz Leiber - Chronicles of Lankhmar

Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk

David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay - The Haunted Woman

David Lindsay - Devil's Tor

H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness

H.P. Lovecraft - The Cthulhu Mythos

Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano

Arthur Machen - The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen - A Fragment of Life

Arthur Machen - The Secret Glory

Arthur Machen - Tales of Horror & the Supernatural

Arthur Machen - The Great God Pam

Arthur Machen - Ornaments In Jade

Patricia A. McKillip - The Riddle Master's Game

George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream

Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer

Gustav Meyrink - The Golem

Gustav Meyrink - Walpurgisnacht

Gustav Meyrink - The White Dominican

Gustav Meyrink - The Green Face

Gustav Meyrink - The Angel of the West Window

China Mieville - Perdido Street Station

China Mieville - The Scar

Hope Mirrlees - Lud In the Mist

Michael Moorcock - Elric Of Melnibone

Michael Moorcock - Corum

Michael Moorcock - The History of the Runestaff

Michael Moorcock - Von Bek

Michael Moorcock - The Eternal Champion

Michael Moorcock - Mother London

Michael Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time

Michael Moorcock - King of the City

Michael Moorcock - Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen

William Morris - The Well at World's End

Fouque de la Motte - Undine

Charles Nodier - Smarra & Trilby

Oliver Onions - Ghost Stories

Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Trilogy

Jan Potocki - The Manuscript Found at Saragossa

Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates

Tim Powers - The Drawing of the Dark

John Cowper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance

John Cowper Powys - Wolf Solent

John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower

John Cowper Powys - Weymouth Sands

John Cowper Powys - Porius

Fletcher Pratt - The Well of the Unicorn

Christopher Priest - The Prestige

Christopher Priest - The Separation

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy

Phil Rickman - The Man In the Moss

Georges Rodenbach - Bruges-la-Morte

Javier Garcia Sanchez - The Others

Sarban - Ringstones & Other Stories

Sarban - The Dollmaker & Other Stories

Sarban - The Sacrifice & Other Stories

Robert Silverberg - The Book of Skulls

Dan Simmons - The Song of Kali

Iain Sinclair - White Chappell Scarlet Tracings

Iain Sinclair - Downriver

Iain Sinclair - Radon Daughters

Iain Sinclair - Landor's Tower

Jack Vance - The Dying Earth

Jack Vance - Lyonesse

Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints & Madmen

Jeff Vandermeer - Veniss Underground

Hugh Walpole - Ghost Stories

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Manly Wade Wellman - Owls Hoot In the Daytime

Oscar Wilde - A Picture of Dorian Gray

Jack Williamson - Darker Than You Think

Gene Wolfe - Peace

Gene Wolfe - The Book Of the New Sun

Francis Brett Young - Coldharbour

Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber