China Mieville's "top 10 weird fiction books"

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"I don’t think you can distinguish science fiction, fantasy and horror with any rigour, as the writers around the magazine Weird Tales early in the last century (Lovecraft in particular) illustrated most sharply. So I use the term ‘weird fiction’ for all fantastic literature – fantasy, SF, horror and all the stuff that won’t fit neatly into slots. Any list of favourites is subject to regular rapid change, of course, so what’s here is just a fast-frozen moment.

In no particular order…"

  1. 1.
    The Course of the Heart
    by M. John Harrison

  2. 3.
    Through the Looking Glass: Complete and Unabridged
    by Lewis Carroll

  3. 4.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    by H. G. Wells

  4. 5.
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    by Philip K. Dick

  5. 6.
    The Dark Domain (Dedalus European Classics)
    by Stefan Grabinski

  6. 7.
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    Strange Evil
    by Jane Gaskell

  7. 8.

  8. 9.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

  9. 10.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link

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Created by frbrown on Jun 04, 2011.
 

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