I'm a big nerd and I've read a lot of books of all different kinds, and I'm an English teacher.
Tell me what you like or what you're looking for and I'll recommend something I think is good
Also, fun history fact, this comm used to be called c/books until I started posting poetry on main every day in protest of there not being a literature comm. Direct action gets the goods comrades
I also really liked China Mieville's Bas lag series. I like his other stuff too, but I really enjoyed his forays into weird fiction. Can you recommend anything like that from other authors?
H.P. Lovecraft is the original weird fiction writer. He even popularized the term. The guy was a racist crank and complete weirdo failson, but he was one of the best to ever do it. YMMV
The stories of Franz Kafka
The stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I'd recommend Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius as a good one to start with
The stories of Thomas Ligotti
But if you want some real weird shit, I'd recommend Cyclonopedia: A Complicity with Anonymous Materials. I've never gotten a single other person to read this one lmao
Challenge accepted! Thanks!
Y'know, I've been meaning to read Conspiracy Against the Human Race for ages now and I just know that it'd etch itself into my brain indelibly so I've been avoiding it because my mental health is trash and... I feel like it'd be a bad idea to be engaging with deep existential horror with where I'm at.
He's quite good. Hopefully you find yourself on a more even keel soon
H.P. Lovecraft
Franz Kafka
Tlön, Uqbar, and Orbis Tertius
Thomas Ligotti
Cyclonopedia