Recommended Reading List

Novels / Novellas

Peter Ackroyd

• Chatterton
• Hawksmoor

Brian Aldiss

• Frankenstein Unbound

Margaret Atwood

• The Handmaids Tale
• The Robber Bride

R. Scott Bakker

• The Darkness That Comes Before
• The Warrior-Prophet

J.G. Ballard

• The Atrocity Exhibition

Iain M. Banks

• Consider Phlebas
• Excession
• Feersum Endjinn
• Inversions
• The Bridge
• The Crow Road
• The Player of Games
• The Wasp Factory
• Use of Weapons
• Walking on Glass
• Whit

Clive Barker

• Coldheart Canyon
• Everville
• Galilee
• Sacrament
• The Great and Secret Show
• The Thief of Always

Alfred Bester

• Tiger! Tiger!

Ray Bradbury

• Fahrenheit 451

John Brunner

• The Traveller in Black

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• A Princess of Mars
• Gods of Mars
• The Lost Continent

William S. Burroughs

• Naked Lunch

Ramsey Campbell

• Ancient Images
• The Count of Eleven
• The House on Nazareth Hill
• The One Safe Place

Jonathan Carroll

• A Child Across the Sky
• Bones of the Moon
• From the Teeth of Angels
• The Marriage of Sticks

Angela Carter

• Heroes and Villains
• The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
• The Magic Toyshop
• The Passion of New Eve
• Wise Children

Simon Clark

• Nailed by the Heart

Joseph Conrad

• Heart of Darkness

Michael Ende

• The Neverending Story

Penelope Farmer

• Eve : Her True Story

Christopher Fowler

• Roofworld
• Darkest Day

Mark Frost

• The List of Seven

M. John Harrison

• Signs of Life

James Herbert

• Creed
• Domain
• '48
• Lair
• The Dark
• The Fog
• The Magic Cottage
• The Rats
• The Spear

William Hope Hodgson

• The House on the Borderland
• The Night Land

S. T. Joshi

• H. P. Lovecraft : A Life

Graham Joyce

• The Tooth Fairy

Franz Kafka

• America
• The Castle
• The Trial

Stephen King

• It
• Salem's Lot
• The Dark Tower : The Gunslinger
• The Dark Tower : The Drawing of the Three
• The Dark Tower : The Wastelands
• The Stand

T.E.D Klein

• The Ceremonies

Ursula K. le Guin

• The Left Hand of Darkness

Tanith Lee

• Dark Dance
• Night's Master

Fritz Leiber

• Conjure Wife

Matthew Lewis

• The Monk

H.P. Lovecraft

• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Brian Lumley

• Necroscope
• Necroscope II : Wampyrii!
• Necroscope : The Lost Years Volume 1
• Necroscope : The Lost Years Volume 2
• Necroscope III : The Source
• Necroscope IV : Deadspeak
• Necroscope V : Deadspawn
• Vampire World 1 : Blood Brothers

Simon Maginn

• Sheep
• Virgins and Martyrs

George R. R. Martin

• Fevre Dream

Graham Masterton

• Black Angel
• Burial
• Family Portrait
• Mirror
• Prey
• The Chosen Child
• The Devils of D-Day
• The Doorkeepers
• The House That Jack Built
• The Hymn
• The Pariah

Robert R. McCammon

• They Thirst
• Usher's Passing

Patrick McGrath

• Asylum

China Mieville

• King Rat
• Perdido Street Staton

Michael Moorcock

• A Cure for Cancer
• An Alien Heat
• Behold the Man
• Blood : A Southern Fantasy
• Byzantium Endures
• Gloriana
• Jerusalem Commands
• Letters from Hollywood
• Mother London
• Stormbringer
• The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century
• The Alchemist's Question
• The City in the Autumn Stars
• The Condition of Muzak
• The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy
• The Dragon in the Sword
• The Dreamthief's Daughter
• The End of All Songs
• The English Assassin
• The Entropy Tango
• The Eternal Champion
• The Final Programme
• The Hollow Lands
• The King of the Swords
• The Knight of the Swords
• The Land Leviathan
• The Laughter of Carthage
• The Queen of the Swords
• The Revenge of the Rose
• The Stealer of Souls
• The Steel Tsar
• The War Amongst the Angels
• The War Hound and the World's Pain
• The Warlord of the Air

H.H. Munro

• When William Came

Kim Newman

• Anno Dracula
• Demon Download Trilogy
• Route 666
• The Bloody Red Baron
• The Quorum

Marc Olden

• Poe Must Die

George Orwell

• 1984

Meryvn Peake

• Titus Groan
• Gormenghast
• Titus Alone

Rachel Pollack

• Godmother Night

Terry Pratchett

• Guards! Guards!
• Masquerade
• Mort
• Moving Pictures
• Reaper Man
• Witches Abroad
• Wyrd Sisters

John Pritchard

• Angels of Mourning

Phil Rickman

• The Chalice

Adrian Ross

• The Hole of the Pit

Michael Scott

• Magician's Law: Tales of the Bard

Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Sheri S. Tepper

• Blood Heritage
• The Family Tree

Thomas Tessier

• Fogheart

Wendy Walker

• The Secret Service

Oscar Wilde

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

F. Paul Wilson

• Nightworld
• Reborn
• Reprisal
• The Keep

Jeanette Winterson

• Boating for Beginners
• Oranges are not the Only Fruit
• Sexing the Cherry
• The Passion

Gene Wolfe

• Soldier of Arete
• Soldier of the Mist
• The Citadel of the Autarch
• The Claw of the Conciliator
• The Shadow of the Torturer
• The Urth of the New Sun

John Wyndham

• The Day of the Triffids

Jack Yeovil

• Route 666
• Krokodil Tears
• Comeback Tour