Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
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created by teddydee
last updated October, 2026
Comments
Very interesting list but seeing Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet here is a bit jarring because I was laughing hysterically while reading them
teddydeeOP
Extremely fair, there's a lot of humor there! I don't remember where I got these recommendations although personally my sense of humor is dark and there's often a lot of overlap between the tragic and the comic for me... I have a black comedy list I'd love to expand as well
I love this list so much, I've discovered many authors I like and I appreciate the good job creating it. Definitely this is my taste.
teddydeeOP
Wow, thank you! Please recommend anything you think I'm missing! All my lists are perpetually under construction :)
Of course, I'll check if there's something missing, but I see it really complete, there's one I'd definitely put here "Los renglones torcidos de Dios", it's about a woman in a psychiatric clinic who decides to be there to make an investigation about her husband, but then you discover how sad the situation is. I don't know if it's translated to English.
teddydeeOP
Thank you!
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