Think Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Perfume, or Lovecraft. I want to read a story with well hidden yet hinted at mysteries, twists that startle me in the moment but shame me the next instant for being so blind to it's coming, stories where the narrator is unreliable as we fall into madness along side them and only realize too late to save ourselves. A book where the real villain is the abyss that beckons our gaze yet, maddeningly, we only catch a glimpse from the edge of our eye, vaguely darker shade in the shadows, but when we turn to look it evades a direct stare.
House of Leaves is next on my list of that helps.
by bastalyn
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Pale Fire by Nabukov should be on your list. It starts as a boring, wandering academic sort of thing… then you start realizing the narrator might not be telling you what is actually happening and things start getting much more interesting…
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