Recs if you like The Descent of Alette...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

katabasis (n.) “descent”; often referring to a descent into the underworld, or the realm of the dead.

"ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages." - espen j. aarseth

books with unique formatting, books you can play like a game, books you need to take apart and put back together again, stories-within-stories, books containing found documents and ephemera, etc.

Poetry collections with Horror Themes

after the poetry reading club, Apricot Trees Exist at Alienated Majesty Books: "Reading poems for generative inspiration" & Aracelis Girmay's collection, Green of All Heads—