Occult Thriller/Occult detective/Mystery/Thriller/Horror/Dark Fantasy books

[Deicide]

I'm looking for a book(s) from the listed genres. Any recommendations?

[Sasha]

More comicly than dark but I really liked the "dirk gently's holistic detective agency" books by Douglas Adams.
Good dark fantasy: anything by Neil Gaiman (esp neverwhere and American gods), Stephen kings "the stand", ill think about some more later...

[Per Levy]

if you havnt allready you should check out lovecraft, great horror. stuff like "the call of cthulhu" "a shadow over innsmouth" "haunter of the dark" or "rats in the walls" are great storys and im sure you'd like them.

[Vendetta]

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's novels are pretty good, especially those dealing with Agent Pendergast.

[Susurrus]

The Complete Fiction of Lovecraft are available at B&N for $20.

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Other than that, if you like graphic novels Alan Moore has done some pretty good ones. I also second the recommendation of Neil Gaiman.

Also Cormac McCarthy could kindof be considered this.

[Crux]

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill. It's nothing short of great, in my opinion of course. His novel Heartshaped Box is good too but I actually think his short stories are slightly better even.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I don't read a lot of horror, but I have read almost all of Stephen King's books. They are all great and you should read them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They cause horrorgazsms. :) The best book is the 1990 Unabridged version of The Stand, but that takes about a whole month, if not two to read.

[Jimmie Higgins]

The best sf/fantasy writer out there right now is a revolutionary comrade: China Mieville.

"Perdido Street Station" is a baroque story set in (and really all about) a fantasy city (he has a series of novels set there) that becomes a horror story with really fantastic strange creatures. It took me about 100 pages to get into it, but then I was hooked and it became one of the most enjoyable reading experiences of the last few years.

"City and the City" is a fantasy-noir detective story with elements of the occult and ancient conspiracy. I don't really like occult themed books and film (aside from Rosemary's Baby) but China does a good job of not falling into the traps that make me usually hate these stories. He leaves the conspiracies mysterious and keeps the occult aspects in question.

"The Kraken" deals with the occult and gods.

Anyway, can't go wrong with his books - some are a little flat, but hey, he's still one of the better genre writers out there and the fact that he's a revolutionary socialist adds a level of interest for radical readers I think.

I'd also recommend Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" which is the sort of anti-occult occult conspiracy novel - very strange and very interesting.

[Crux]

I saw city and the city at the library. Maybe I should check it out. Also I have another tip nightwatch and daywatch. The movies are great, the books are brilliant. But perhaps you should check the movies first. If you like them you will love the books. It's a tetraology and I'm just finished with the second so far. Looking forward to the rest.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I saw city and the city at the library. Maybe I should check it out.I enjoyed it, but it's not really representative of his style - it is shorter and a quicker read though. I'd go for Perdido St. Station or Iron Council for more fantasy/Sci-fi (and more obvious Marxist references and implications) and then the Kraken for more humor.

[Left Leanings]

James Herbert's The Rats and Lair

Wilkie Collins, Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Terry Lamsey, Under The Crust: Supernatural Tales of Buxton

and

Saki's (H. H. Munro), The Chronicles of Clovis

[x359594]

Both Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison are contemporary practioners of the genres you listed. They happen to be excellent prose stylists as well, and this puts them ahead of the rest of current writers in the genre.

[TrotskistMarx]

I am reading a book by Edgar Allan Poe about his most important detective crime stories. You might also try Dostoyesvky, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouak


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I'm looking for a book(s) from the listed genres. Any recommendations?

[x359594]

...You might also try...Jack Kerouak.

The only works of Kerouac's that might qualify as dark fantasy is his novel Doctor Sax and his short story "CITYCitycity."