Books featuring strong architectural themes, love of cities, setting as character, weird buildings, etc.
created by crowsolan
last updated December, 2025
Municipal Gothic: 13 ghost stories
Ray Newman
Orphic Paris
Henri Cole
Horror in Architecture
Joshua Comaroff
Bruges-la-Morte
Georges Rodenbach
The Tower of Love
Rachilde Rachilde
The Castle
Franz Kafka
The Inverted World
Christopher Priest
Topology of a Phantom City
Alain Robbe-Grillet
The City & the City
China Miéville
Little, Big
John Crowley
Malpertuis
Jean Ray
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Howlâs Moving Castle (Howlâs Moving Castle, #1)
Diana Wynne Jones
Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
High-Rise
J.G. Ballard
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
Mervyn Peake
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
The Architect
Brendan Connell
Metrophilias
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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