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You Like Your Madness With a Bit of Adventure:
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon → secret society
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy → a very Wild West
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern → magical book, magical world
You Want a Good Ghost Story... But Not Exactly a Ghost Story:
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson → it's the end of the world
North Woods by Daniel Mason → generational saga
You Want a Messy, Bloody, Should-Be-Illegal Love Story:
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson → sapphic vampires
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë → controversial & classic
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira → gay... but for Jesus
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi → gothic fairytale
You're Into the Classics & You Love to Cry:
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind → sensitive killer
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin → an affair in Paris
Sula by Toni Morrison → the pursuit of girlhood
You Like History but You Know Not to Repeat It:
The Terror by Dan Simmons → "The Thing" vibes
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore → insatiable hunger
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones → indigenous vampire hunters
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