Not that I need more in my reading list, but I've discovered that there is no school like the old school. Some stuff that I've read and really enjoyed:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Bram Stoker's Dracula
HG Wells' The War of the Worlds
Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau
Lovecraft, of course
Robert E Howard's original Conan stories
William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and The Trial (the latter isn't really sci-fi, but is definitely weird enough)
Fritz Leiber's The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (wonderfully weird)
William Sloane's To Walk the Night and Edge of Running Water (these were fabulous IMO)
a smattering of short stories, such as "Lot No. 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm currently reading A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, and have a couple others of his on my list.
Suggestions, anyone? The weirder and older the better.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Bram Stoker's Dracula
HG Wells' The War of the Worlds
Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau
Lovecraft, of course
Robert E Howard's original Conan stories
William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and The Trial (the latter isn't really sci-fi, but is definitely weird enough)
Fritz Leiber's The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (wonderfully weird)
William Sloane's To Walk the Night and Edge of Running Water (these were fabulous IMO)
a smattering of short stories, such as "Lot No. 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm currently reading A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, and have a couple others of his on my list.
Suggestions, anyone? The weirder and older the better.
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