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.
Algernon Blackwood
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