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My Favourite weird fiction
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.31
A classic.
Fight ClubFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £2.70
One of Palahniuk's best. The film is great, too.
Ubik (Gollancz S.F.)Ubik (Gollancz S.F.) by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: £5.00
Lots of PKD in this list. A genius finally getting the recognition that he deserves.
Cock and BullCock and Bull by Will Self
Buy new: £5.26 / Used from: £0.01
Self has rarely bettered this collection of two novellas. Outstanding!
CrashCrash by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.09
Cold, concrete, tarmac. One of Ballard's best - a tale of twisted sexuality.
A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks)A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.68
One of Dick's best. That says it all, really.....
Ugly Stories For Beautiful PeopleUgly Stories For Beautiful People by James Burr
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £1.99
New English writer. A genius of weird fiction.
American PsychoAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.59
Easton Ellis never bettered this chilling masterwork.
The Time Traveler's WifeThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: £65.00
Interesting narrative conceits. A great novel.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (S.F. Masterworks)The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.67 / Used from: £1.49
Another Dick classic. The master of the weird.
The BridgeThe Bridge by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01
I much prefer Banks' "mainstream" work to his SF. This is one of his best.
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough BoysTough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self
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A great collection of short, weird fiction.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £4.25
The foundation to all good weird fiction.
The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange)The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) by Carlton Mellick
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £7.52
Sometimes tries too hard, but some great ideas in this new branch of the weird.
The Quantity Theory of InsanityThe Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.63
Self's first collection. Well worth a read.