Hello! First post on here!
I’m been feeling the itch to write my story again and would love some inspiration to keep me going! I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction lately which has been great but I’m craving some good fiction, preferably horror or something adjacent, it can be genre bending. I’d love folklore elements, things that few dark and ancient and gritty.
I want to find something that moves me deeply. To help, these are the books that have stuck with me over the last few years, fiction and nonfiction:
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (I also read the Unworthy and her short stories)
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Dracula by Brom Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Monstrillo by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Charmed Life by Diane Wynne Jones
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
Sex With a Brain Injury by Annie Liontas
Danube: Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest by Nick Thorpe
People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin’s Love Affair with an Ancient Fish by Kathleen Schmitt Kline
by aBeeiBee
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Ohhhh we have some similar tastes! Here are a dozen books you might like.
Animal (Taddeo)
Bone Harvest
The Faceless Thing We Adore
The Haar
Lost In The Garden
Piranesi
Root Rot
Scratch Moss
Scuttler’s Cove
The September House
The Starving Saints
Withered Hill
Hard Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami. Takes place in two realities, one being very dream-like.
I think The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi would scratch that itch
One of the best books I read a few years ago, which reminded me a lot of Paradise Rot was Y/N by Esther Yi, it’s a dreamy book about a young woman who is introduced to a K-Pop Band and immediately falls in love with one of the boys, named Moon, to the destruction of the rest of her life.
Slade House by David Mitchell