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Strange Fiction Public
Created by Cheryl
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features …
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Asylum piece and other stories by Anna Kavan
5 stars
Since Anna Kavan died in 1968 there has been a strong revival of interest in her writings. Asylum Piece, a …
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Ice by Anna Kavan
3 stars
No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across …
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Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick
4 stars
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
4 stars
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor …
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The complete poems of John Keats. by John Keats
4 stars
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he …
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A scanner darkly by Philip K. Dick
4 stars
A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977. The semi-autobiographical story …
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
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Wonderful Fool by Shūsaku Endō
Wonderful Fool (おバカさん, Obaka-san) is a novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endō, originally serialized in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun …
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
4 stars
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of …
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5 stars
When Lilah Kemp, a schizophrenic, unemployed librarian and sometime spiritualist, accidently frees the evil Kurtz from the pages of Heart …
