"weird" atmosphere
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darkling_talesLJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY satanicharisma)
Hello. I've posted a few times before, but I think this is the first time I've asked an out-and-out question. I enjoy a great many genres, and have been
a science fiction fan for as long as I've been cogent ... but these days I hunger for a very particular sort of atmosphere. I've just finished David Lindsay's
phenomenally strange and highly symbolic masterpiece "A Voyage to arcturus" and, needless to say, I loved it. I was impressed at how polarised opinions
were on this book and thought it sounded weird enough tobe up my alley, so I knew I had to give it a go. It haunts and fascinates me in a way that no other
book has in a long time. My favourite author is probably Jack Vance, and I love all the Weird Tales stuff: Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard, Moore,
etc, I'm very familiar with Robert Chambers' "The King in Yellow", and I adore weird science fiction/horrific/fantastic hybrids like William Hope Hodgson's
"The House on the Borderland". SO, what I'm looking for is books, either novels or short story compilations, that carry a certain "weird" atmosphere to
them, in the form of really atmospheric, lyrical writing that really captures the imagination in a way that few authors seem able or willing to attempt.
Another book in a sort of congruent style to what I'm after is the "Gormenghast" trilogy by Mervin Peake. It doesn't have to be written in the 1920s, and
it doesn't have to carry the sort of heavy-weighted symbolism carried by "A Voyage to Arcturus". Just recommend me something strange and compelling that
you think, judging by what I've listed here, would be up my alley. Thanks!
satanicharisma)Hello. I've posted a few times before, but I think this is the first time I've asked an out-and-out question. I enjoy a great many genres, and have been
a science fiction fan for as long as I've been cogent ... but these days I hunger for a very particular sort of atmosphere. I've just finished David Lindsay's
phenomenally strange and highly symbolic masterpiece "A Voyage to arcturus" and, needless to say, I loved it. I was impressed at how polarised opinions
were on this book and thought it sounded weird enough tobe up my alley, so I knew I had to give it a go. It haunts and fascinates me in a way that no other
book has in a long time. My favourite author is probably Jack Vance, and I love all the Weird Tales stuff: Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard, Moore,
etc, I'm very familiar with Robert Chambers' "The King in Yellow", and I adore weird science fiction/horrific/fantastic hybrids like William Hope Hodgson's
"The House on the Borderland". SO, what I'm looking for is books, either novels or short story compilations, that carry a certain "weird" atmosphere to
them, in the form of really atmospheric, lyrical writing that really captures the imagination in a way that few authors seem able or willing to attempt.
Another book in a sort of congruent style to what I'm after is the "Gormenghast" trilogy by Mervin Peake. It doesn't have to be written in the 1920s, and
it doesn't have to carry the sort of heavy-weighted symbolism carried by "A Voyage to Arcturus". Just recommend me something strange and compelling that
you think, judging by what I've listed here, would be up my alley. Thanks!
