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Recommend me weird fiction books, please! (lemmy.world)
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Enjoy weird fiction overall, sci-fi and "horror" (in a very general sense). I like some Lovecraft, VanderMeers, Ballard, China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin, late William Gibson, Mariana Enríquez... what recent books or writers caught your eye that may loosely fit the term or are similar to works of the above authors? Can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

House of leaves is my all time favourite mindfuck horror literature. I just recommend going hard copy over ebook as the formatting is super important. I can't really describe it except to say I can see how Backrooms could be inspired by it.

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    I just reread house of leaves. It's very good.

    The first time I read it, it was right after taking like Theory & Criticism 400 in college, so the academic prose seemed just normal. I lent it to a friend who hasn't read anything more advanced than Harry Potter in decades, and it really gave her brain a workout.

    It's worth it. The story is fascinating and it's a good mental workout.

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