I’ve been really in the mood to read like, something weird-ish. Like, I am looking for that near cosmic horror direction or just odd and fun fantastical stuff that breaks away from the base line fantasy. Think like, “Annihilation”, but preferably less sci-fi touched?
I guess I’m kinda looking for something like fantasy mixed with horror, but I don’t really want dark fantasies (I feel like dark fantasies tend to be more vibe and less like “weird”).
I don’t want something like, gritty and dark (by which I mean where the MC experiences horrific traumas and everyone dies bexause oh no the world sucks) per se.
I want more like, watching the MC’s deal with weirdness like idk, à wall that talks and laments about being made out of drywall instead of brick or something along those lines. Ya know, where you read it and you’re like “lol wtf?” – Body horror is very welcome.
The Emily Wildes series is KINDA also another example of the right direction for me with the more macabre fae? Or like, a modern vibe on Alice in wonder land?
Preferably something recently published because I am a brain dead adult who likes the current styles. Adult or YA is good.
Not a fan of retellings or Greek myths. Prefer male protags over female. Romantasy is very meh for me, but I do not mind romance nor am opposed to adult content.
Feel free to recommend anything even if it doesn’t quite hit my preferences, I am open to broadening my horizons.
by UltraDinoWarrior
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Piranesi checks almost all of those boxes. It’s like a more melancholy Alice in Wonderland. Eerie but definitely not horror. And delightfully weird – lots of living statues, and a massive temple-like building that keeps flooding.
did you read piranesi?
also, maybe, the hollow places by t. kingfisher
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Laundry Files, Stross.
The Ambergris series by Jeff Vandermeer sounds pretty close. It’s about a fictional city in a jungle where weird and crazy shit go on