Weird Fiction
Updated at 2016-11-20 19:16
I try keep track of what weird fiction / short stories I've read and what I should read. There might be some small notes about them, he notes don't spoil much, more for my own memory.
Good horror / weird fiction podcasts:
- https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com
- http://hppodcraft.com/
Markings
S = short (Short Story, under 7,500 words, under 30 pages)
M = medium (Novellette or Novelella, 7,500 to 40,000 words, 30 to 160 pages)
L = long (Novel or longer, over 40,000 words, over 160 pages)
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means an exceptional story
HP Lovecraft
Recommended reading order:
- Rats in the Walls [S]
- A man returns to his ancestral home and hears noises through walls.
- Cool Air [S]
- An aid to spanish doctor tells how he tried to prolong his life by freezing his body.
- Dagon [S]
- Traumatized desertee finds himself a reef of rot risen from the bottom of the ocean.
- In the Vault [S]
- Undertaker gets locked in a tomb, includes revenge of the deceived.
- The Whisperer in Darkness [M]
- A researcher who has communicated with beings on Pluto.
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward [L]
- The Call of Cthulhu [S]
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth [M]
- Unhelpful locals and a mystery.
- The Colour Out of Space [S]
- The Music of Erich Zann [S]
- The Dreams in the Witch-House [S]
- Pickman's Model [S]
- The Haunter of the Dark [S]
- The Shunned House [S]
- At the Mountains of Madness [M]
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- An expedition on Antarctica gone wrong. Poor dogs.
- The Dunwich Horror [S]
- The Shadow Out of Time [M]
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath [S]
Unordered:
- The Thing on the Doorstep [S]
- The Horror at Red Hook [S]
- The Lurking Fear [S]
- From Beyond [S]
- The Nameless City [S]
- The Cats of Ulthar [S]
- The Doom That Came ot Sarnath [S]
- The Picture in the House [S]
- The Best in the Cave [S]
- The Alchemist [S]
- The Unnamable [S]
- The Strange High House in the Mist [S]
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key [S]
- Herbert West - Reanimator [L]
- A medical student tries to bring animals and humans back from the brink of death.
- The Hound [S]
- The Statement of Randolph Carter [S]
T.E.D Klein
- The Events at Poroth Farm [M]
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Robert E. Howard
- Worms of the Earth [S]
- Wolfshead [M]
Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow:
- The Repairer of Reputations [M]
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- because of the experimental storytelling - The Mask [M]
- In the Court of the Dragon [S]
- The Yellow Sign [M]
- The Demoiselle d'Ys [S]
- The Prophets' Paradise [S]
- The Street of the Four Winds [S]
- The Street of the First Shell [M]
- The Street of Our Lady of the Fields [M]
- Rue Barrée [S]
M.R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary:
- Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book [S]
- Lost Hearts [S]
- The Mezzotint [S]
- The Ash-tree [S]
- Number 13 [S]
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- Count Magnus [S]
- Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad [S]
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- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas [S]
Clark Ashton Smith
- The Ghost of Mohammed Din [S]
- The Mahout [S]
- Prince Alcouz and the Magician [S]
- The Raja and the Tiger [S]
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- Something New [S]
- The Double Shadow [S]
- The Chain of Aforgomon [S]
- The Black Abbot of Puthuum [M]
- The Garden of Adompha [M]
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- The Memnons of the Night [S]
- The Flower-Devil [S]
- The Traveller [S]
- The Shadows [S]
Ray Bradbury
- The Kilimanjaro Device [S]
- The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place [S]
- Tomorrow's Child [S]
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- The Women [S]
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- The Inspired Chicken Motel [S]