#Weird Books

[figcatlists]

Contemporary weird fiction reading list

A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.

[bloodsuckingviolet]

Stay for the summer...if you dare.

My new book "Summer in Horseheads" is available now! 🐴🦴

A creeptastic summery story that follows Negasi Zane as he moves to America with his mother and her new husband to a small town named Horseheads, New York. There, Negasi discovers that all residents flee the town when the neighborhood 'freaks' return from their peculiar boarding schools abroad. With an entire summer in a strange, foreign place ahead of him, Negasi has little choice but to befriend the same murder of teens whose mere presence is enough to scare away an entire town...

📖Link in bio📖

[arconinternet]

A Visual Guide To Alien Beings (Book, David W. Chace, 1996)

You can read it here. It's huge.

[shrubseph]

Tumblr help there's a book I read when I was younger and I don't think I finished it but I can't remember much of it and the stuff I can remember I don't know if it's real or if I just dreamed it up so if anyone can help me find it it would be appreciated.

- from what I can recall it was sort of like a dark fairy tale with similar vibes to a Series of Unfortunate Events

- I think there was big tree on the cover and/or part of the book involved going through doors on a big tree

- there were kids (siblings I think) splitting off and having their own stories and I think some of them died

- one of the stories was in some sort of land of the dead and there was a border dispute that they resolved by having two riders ride towards each other and wherever they meet that's the new border, but there was some weird upside down stuff going on so they ended up passing each other

- I think there was a character named Beatrice or Beatrix or something

- I think one of the kids went into a Snow Queen story

If people could spread this around any help would be appreciated this is driving me insane

[quicksilverlightning]

I respond to lots of stimuli, but these will get my attention immediately.

[eulergirl]

Reading the king in yellow. Gotta say. Its definitely one of the more interesting books ive ever read. The mask is defo my fave short story so far.

[frontlinetltties]

If a book doesn't come with a warning of "weirdest fucking thing you've ever read" i don't want to read it.

I'll even settle for a "the characters do not understand anything that's going on and neither will you"

[sage-green-kitchen]

People who only watched the Wizard of Oz movie (the first one, not the one that they made based on Ozma of Oz) do not know how weird those books get.

[call-me-cosmic]

Found this weird book while out on a walk today. I can’t… stop… thinking about it… dunno why

[figcatlists]

Classic weird fiction reading list

A chart of recommended strange, disturbing, and unsettling books published before 1990. This is a selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature that I published on my website.

[arconinternet]

Beep Beep the Road Runner (Book, Cecily Ruth Hoga and Fred and Jill Daunno, 1977)

A 1970's storybook-ification of the Road Runner mythos. You can digitally borrow it here.

[cray-area]

My dream is it to have a little library in my home. Not filled with geographical books or history or masterpieces like Shakespeare stuff or moby dick.

No.

I want my library to be filled with the brim with strange books that make people question my sanity, to want to leave immediately when reading them.

Books like=

"P for pterodactyl"

"How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety."

"The book of answers"

"How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack"

"The ABCs of Body Disposal: A (Mostly) Practical Guide for Post Morten Planning"

"How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"

"Eating People is Wrong" (for good measure)

"The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America"

"Extreme Ironing"

"The Manly Art of Knitting"

"One million digits of Pi"

"Don't Sit On the Baby!" (happens to me all the time)

"Charlie the Choo-Choo"

"Terrible Maps"

"How to make a hat entirely out of dried cucumber"

"The ultimate alphabet"

"The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America"

"Tik tak tome"

"Be Bold with Bananas."

"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates"

"Anybody Can Be Cool, But Awesome Takes Practice"

"This book will put you to sleep"

"Do It Yourself Coffins for Pets and People"

"How to Make a Towel Monkey and other Cruise Ship Favorites"

"Mom is Dating Weird Wayne"

"Better Never to Have Been: The Harm Of Coming Into Existence"

"Murphy's Law and other reasons why things go wrong!"

"The get rich and become god method"

"Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious."

This post is secretly a book recommendation.

Enjoy!

[rotten-whispers]

For fans of surreal, exploratory horror novels, or those seeking entry into another world, please check out Boxes!

Nonbinary Baxley is searching for their missing brother in the Complex - a tower that descends endlessly into the earth, filled with surreal landscapes, uncomfortable memories, and denizens as ruthless as the creatures that govern its halls.

The deeper that you go, the more lost you become. But will you ever emerge on the other side?

(see p1nned post for details, check trigger warnings before reading)

[gringadano]

[uh-oh-its-trinity]

One of my Top 5 Favorite Books!

You could definitely read this in one sitting. And read it again. And again. And again…

I love to read books during the seasons the books are set in. So, when you’re ready for a gut-wrenching roller coaster in winter, pick this one up!

(but never watch the movie…)