I'm looking for books that involve weird/kooky small towns. Think the show Eureka or Twin Peaks or Welcome to Nightvale.
They can be horror, scifi, fantasy, romance, whatever. I just want that feeling of there's something strange happening in this place good or bad.
by Graceless_WoodNymph
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Mink River by Brian Doyle.
From the publisher:
Like Dylan Thomas’ *Under Milk Wood* and Sherwood Anderson’s *Winesburg, Ohio*, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people.
In a small town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There’s a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime committed, and there’s an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field. Babies are born. A car is cut in half with a saw. A river confesses what it’s thinking…
It’s the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and readers will close the book more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.
Dead Crow by David Haynes
Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch
Most of Simone St. James’ novels are set in small towns with something supernatural and weird going on.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is a great series of short stories that reveal oddities that are hidden in even a small town. Sort of a Southern gothic vibe.