It feels like Dante’s Inferno dominates this kind of story. And I enjoyed it but I want more.
I really loved how the underworld was represented in the Earthsea Series. The LOTR also had a similar vibe in the mines of Moria. And though it is a slightly niche pull, I also liked the underworld in the Epic of Mwindo.
I’d like to read a novel in which the whole plot follows the descent into an underworld, of any culture. I’d even take non-fiction recommendations—as in folkloric and anthropological essays about the subject.
I heard of the new Katabasis book but the premise feels a little too YA for my personal taste (I mean this with no disrespect to YA) I would also want to avoid recommendations for series like Percy Jackson.
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Inferno by Larry Niben
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
You might like Tad Williams’ Urban Fantasy Bobby Dollar series – Dirty Streets of Heaven and Happy Hour in Hell. The second book is very much a Dantesque decent to hell; although have to admit to preferring the first book.
Just purchased a novella called A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L Peck. In this a man is sent to a Library of Babel like hell. The inhabitants can escape, but only if they can find the precise book, in the trillions in the library labyrinth that tells their life story perfectly. Haven’t read it yet, but it sounds like something you might be interested in.
Lanark – Alasdair Gray