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14 Nov 2024, 11:30 am

I particularly enjoy fantasy like Lovecraft, Berserk, and Dunsany. Recommend me some obscure unkown fantasy stories because I'm starting my own library and want more books to read. Reading to me calms the soul which is something I need to do more.



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15 Nov 2024, 12:58 am

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy might not fit exactly in the categories you're looking for, but it is a horror story disguised as a western, just the same. One of my very favorite books, in fact.


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15 Nov 2024, 6:29 am

Dune series by Frank Herbert. If you looks for books with very complicated and dense storyline, those books will be for you.



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15 Nov 2024, 4:28 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy might not fit exactly in the categories you're looking for, but it is a horror story disguised as a western, just the same. One of my very favorite books, in fact.


There is a similar book I want called Butchers Crossing



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15 Nov 2024, 6:19 pm

ChaosCascade wrote:
I particularly enjoy fantasy like Lovecraft, Berserk, and Dunsany. Recommend me some obscure unkown fantasy stories because I'm starting my own library and want more books to read. Reading to me calms the soul which is something I need to do more.


Ah that is right down my alley. Only mystery author is Berserk. Per Wikipedia: "a Japanese manga series by Kentaro Miura."

I recommend without reservation two books that will rock your world. Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, & Alhazred, by Donald Tyson. With Bulwer-Lytton, you are better off simply buying the four-book anthology of all of his weird fiction. He wrote many weird novels & stories. All are good, some more than others.

Donald Tyson has a lot of titles that I like, I am a collector of his work. He is not the strongest writer of fiction, but his non-fiction is rather useful. I collect and read both his fiction and non-fiction. He is a Lovecraft scholar.

Dunsany is very good of course. I have a big anthology of his stories.


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15 Nov 2024, 9:52 pm

ChaosCascade wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy might not fit exactly in the categories you're looking for, but it is a horror story disguised as a western, just the same. One of my very favorite books, in fact.


There is a similar book I want called Butchers Crossing


Sounds familiar.


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16 Nov 2024, 5:55 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
ChaosCascade wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy might not fit exactly in the categories you're looking for, but it is a horror story disguised as a western, just the same. One of my very favorite books, in fact.


There is a similar book I want called Butchers Crossing


Sounds familiar.


It's a book often compared or even considered more violent than it.



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16 Nov 2024, 6:10 pm

^^^
I'll have to check it out.


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16 Nov 2024, 6:21 pm

Gentleman Argentum wrote:
ChaosCascade wrote:
I particularly enjoy fantasy like Lovecraft, Berserk, and Dunsany. Recommend me some obscure unkown fantasy stories because I'm starting my own library and want more books to read. Reading to me calms the soul which is something I need to do more.


Ah that is right down my alley. Only mystery author is Berserk. Per Wikipedia: "a Japanese manga series by Kentaro Miura."

I recommend without reservation two books that will rock your world. Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, & Alhazred, by Donald Tyson. With Bulwer-Lytton, you are better off simply buying the four-book anthology of all of his weird fiction. He wrote many weird novels & stories. All are good, some more than others.

Donald Tyson has a lot of titles that I like, I am a collector of his work. He is not the strongest writer of fiction, but his non-fiction is rather useful. I collect and read both his fiction and non-fiction. He is a Lovecraft scholar.

Dunsany is very good of course. I have a big anthology of his stories.



It's a beautiful manga series, check out the 1997 anime you will not regret it. Just avoid the 2016-2017 anime.