Man stumbles on dream world-returns to earth-seeks to go back-succeeds, but finds dream world ancient and decayed as though by thousands of years. Finally falls asleep-and something happens. The man who would not sleep-dares not sleep-takes drugs to keep himself awake. A very ancient colossus in a very ancient desert. Man journeys into the past-or imaginative realm-leaving bodily shell behind.Ģ1. Revise 1907 tale-painting of ultimate horror.Ģ0. Calamander-wood-a very valuable cabinet wood of Ceylon and S. Doors found mysteriously open and shut etc.-excite terror.ġ8. The walking dead-seemingly alive, but-.ġ7. Happenings in interval between preliminary sound and striking of clock-ending- “it was the tones of the clock striking three”.ġ3. The sculptured hand-or other artificial hand-which strangles its creator.Ĩ. “Here we have fetter’d and manacled Time, who wou’d otherwise slay the Gods.”ħ. In Ld Dunsany’s “Idle Days on the Yann.” The inhabitants of the antient Astahan, on the Yann, do all things according to antient ceremony. Narrator walks along unfamiliar country road,-comes to strange region of the unreal. Man dreams of falling-found on floor mangled as tho’ from falling from a vast height.ĥ. The shores of Attica respond in song to the waves of the Aegean.Ĥ. Inhabitants of Zinge, over whom the star Canopus rises every night, are always gay and without sorrow.ģ. Demophon shivered when the sun shone upon him. Barlow, Esq., on May 7, 1934-in exchange for an admirably neat typed copy from his skilled hand.ġ. Their sources are various-dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on. Very few are actually developed plots-for the most part they are merely suggestions or random impressions designed to set the memory or imagination working. This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Here are 13 of the strangest books you’ll want to read anyway.Entries with stories in the book are marked in bold with the story information in brackets. If you’re a book lover who likes your literature a little bit strange, then these books are definitely for you. Ron Hubbard (who is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated and published author in the world, by the way.) Finally, there is a category of strange reserved for the very few - writers who inspire a whole lot of WTF, and maybe a little DNF (that’s “did not finish” in bibliophile speak.) Lucky for you, the books on this list fall into that first category - so get ready to have your literary minds blown. Then there are those whose work is strange if only for its place in history - like the countless novels written by Church of Scientology-founder L. But is it, really? The authors on this list might disagree, having written some of the strangest books of all time - strange enough to totally bend your mind, at least, but not so strange as to keep you from reading them in the first place (you’ll definitely want to add these to your TBR list.) After all, I think we can agree that when it comes to fiction, there are varying degrees of strange: there are the authors who blow your mind but keep you coming back for more - folks like Lidia Yuknavitch and Eimear McBride. We’ve all heard the age-old adage that the truth is stranger than fiction.
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