bizarre fantasy
Explore a curated list of the most bizarre fantasy books that defy conventions. Discover strange worlds, odd creatures, and mind-bending tales for fans of the weird and wonderful.
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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Hired to investigate a mysterious video collection that has been appearing on the Internet, market research consultant Cayce Pollard realizes that there is more to the assignment when her computer is hacked.
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Tales of Old Earth
by Michael Swanwick
From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted offering by one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers' minds far beyond ordinary limits. Nineteen tales from Michael Swanwick's best short fiction of the past decade are gathered here for the first time, including the 1999 Hugo Award-nominated "Radiant Doors" and "Wild Minds" and this year's winning story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine." The collection also features "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O," written especially for this volume.
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The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's tales who died at forty-four. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake.
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Bones of the Moon
by Jonathan Carroll
Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams-and whose dreams control her life. In her first dream, she found the perfect man-and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, she has begun to dream dreams set in Rondua, a fantasy world of high adventure, full of tests of her courage and strength. Slowly and quietly, her dream world is spilling over into her New York City reality and beginning to threaten everything she loves in life. Her friends are gathered to help her-but even her newfound courage may not be enough.
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White Apples
by Jonathan Carroll
Philanderer Vincent Ettrich reawakens to discover that he has died and come back to life, thanks to the efforts of his true love, Isabelle, who is pregnant with their baby, a child that is destined to save the universe.
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The Wooden Sea
by Jonathan Carroll
The arrival and subsequent death of a three-legged dog has a profound impact on the life of Crane's View police chief Frannie McCabe, who finds himself confronted with a series of life-altering decisions that could change the fate of the entire world.
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Sleeping in Flame
by Jonathan Carroll
Walker Easterling, an actor confused about his orphan past, falls passionately in love with a beautiful supermodel. When they establish their lives together in Vienna, a series of bizarre events reveals that Walker has led many past lives. An unresolved conflict may lead to the death of their unborn child.
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The Marriage of Sticks
by Jonathan Carroll
A woman who stole another woman's husband is assaulted by ghosts. The ghosts inform her she is actually a vampire and must mend her ways by using her power to bring good. By the author of Kissing the Beehive.
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Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS • A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post) “[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat.”—The New York Times The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released. The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city’s heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
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Aaaiiieee!!!
by Jeffrey Thomas
AAAIIIEEE!!! presents to the horror enthusiast twenty of the best dark fantasy tales of author Jeffrey Thomas (PUNKTOWN), culled from their original appearances in the independent press. From subtle stories of ghosts and encroaching madness to extreme tales of erotic and visceral terror, this collection’s contents span the breadth of the horror spectrum. In these pages one will encounter: a mysterious channel on a hospital room’s television…a concentration camp where the dead may seek retribution…a music star’s unearthly and distasteful approach to fame…a woman in love with a dangerous fallen angel…the ghost of an insane parent resurrected by an otherworldly force. Whether one’s appetite runs from the traditional to the experimental, AAAIIIEEE!!! has a dark confection for every trick or treat bag.
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Kiln People
by David Brin
In a dangerous future world in which disposable human duplicates fulfill every wish of their degenerate masters, investigator Albert Morris ventures into a shadowy world in search of a revolutionary discovery that could transform humankind.
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