Recs if you like The King in Yellow...
Books About Books 📚
Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!
Niche Classics
Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.
This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.
100 Gothic Classics
A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.
light of my life, fire of my loins - obsessions
books featuring obsession, from the light-hearted and quirky to the dark and twisted
Standard Ebooks Offerings!
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I talk about Standard Ebooks a TON. I wanted to make a list of some of the most popular offerings they have available to read. Their full library of over 1300 books is 100% FREE and from the US Public Domain. From Kobo to Kindle, they have a format that'll work for however you want to read, even PDFs! Save a few bucks (or library holds) here: https://standardebooks.org/
Short, But Not Sweet: Strange Books < 300 pages
I love novellas and short stories, I feel like it really gives authors a place to flex their talents on just how much they can reveal of a character or world in minimal page space. These are some I feel really pack a punch. They are weird, unique, and can be read in a day.
Disturbing Novel Iceberg - Tier 1
Tier 1 from the disturbing novels iceberg. Iceberg was created in response to the disturbing movie iceberg. These are the 'beginner' books with difficult themes and some gore.
Gothic Fiction available for free on Project Gutenberg
Gothic novels and short stories in the Public Domain, available as free eBooks on gutenberg.org and standardebooks.org
HYCRED 3.0 Colours in the Title
Book ideas for the ‘Rainbow of Words’ - Books with colours in the title. I know that not all these colours are in the challenge but I’m down the rabbit hole now okay and I’m not leaving you can’t make me!!!
Includes: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Jade, Blue, Purple, Violet, Black, White, Brown, Gold, Silver, Rose & Pink
plus some french, spanish & german titles for colours too
Weird Sci-fi/Fantasy
A set of books all in the genre of ‘Weird’ fiction, specifically sci-fi/fantasy.
Weird fiction
A mix of older classic weird fic and more modern strange stories. Please give me suggestions!!
ergodic lit and other odd books
"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.
Cosmic horror books with a dead wife
I am growing increasingly tired of this trope with cosmic horror books. I blame Robert W. Chambers.
acid books
books that make you feel like you’re on drugs, while also feeling like you should be taking drugs to properaly appreciate the book or the “wtf is going on” books
For Fans Of: From
Books for fans of the TV show From
Weirdlit Novels and Critical Essays
From Vandermeer, to Lovecraft, to Hogdson.
JUST ONE BITE ! ── short horror stories.
A list of horror books with 200 pages or less for readers in need of small doses of spooks to get through their days.
SUMMER-WEEN 2026
This is the hope for summer-ween 2026. feeling a haunted house vibe
Rainbow of Words
Technically for the HRCYED rainbow challenge and the coat of many colors secret challenge but if you just like your color titles then I hope you find something for you!
Cosmic Horror
The unknown, ancient deities, unfathomable and unbeatable forces, and madness. The list will be updated as I discover more ✨
