Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 24, 2017 12:11:33 GMT
Some of my favourites
The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin
Orientalist Irwin's best fiction book, a maze of fantasy tales-within-tales, in homage to a famous model.
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls Edward Leslie
A fascinating, and frequently stunning collection of real-life survivals against the odds, free from any suggestion of exaggeration, fabrication or any Boy's Own puffery.
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
The greatest work of British Fantasy Horror of its time.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susannah Clarke
A modern wonder of magical story telling. Clarke invents her own convincing mythos, and the fictional literary apparatus to accompany it, and carries everything off with great triumph.
The Anubis Gates Tim Powers
My favourite of all of Power's books - deft, entertaining and imaginative.
Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
I fall for that rabbit hole, every time.
The Western, The (Aurum Film Encyclopaedia) ed. Phil Hardy
An indispensable reference book, which has been a steady companion down the years.
The World Below S Fowler Wright
Even though Wright lost his nerve and rushed too much towards the end of this, his finest book, most of it remains a lesser-known work of British science fantasy to fully rival that of Wells and Lindsay.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
I've followed in the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm since childhood.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mark Rutherford (William Hale White)
A superb, late Victorian faux-biography documenting the slow loss of faith by the hero. The succeeding two volumes are almost just as good.
Befuddled by Cormorants Frank Key
I could have chosen virtually anything by the largely self-published Frank Key, who I think is the greatest living writer of nonsense. He can be heard reading his own prose on Resonance FM podcasts.
My Antonia Willa Cather
My favourite American novelist - sensitive and sublime, she makes it all seem so easy - a sign of a great author. But others show it is not.
In the Wake of Sea Serpents Bernard Heuvelmans
One of the seminal works of modern cryptozoology (the natural history of unknown or supposed fauna), by a founding father.
The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin
Orientalist Irwin's best fiction book, a maze of fantasy tales-within-tales, in homage to a famous model.
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls Edward Leslie
A fascinating, and frequently stunning collection of real-life survivals against the odds, free from any suggestion of exaggeration, fabrication or any Boy's Own puffery.
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
The greatest work of British Fantasy Horror of its time.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susannah Clarke
A modern wonder of magical story telling. Clarke invents her own convincing mythos, and the fictional literary apparatus to accompany it, and carries everything off with great triumph.
The Anubis Gates Tim Powers
My favourite of all of Power's books - deft, entertaining and imaginative.
Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
I fall for that rabbit hole, every time.
The Western, The (Aurum Film Encyclopaedia) ed. Phil Hardy
An indispensable reference book, which has been a steady companion down the years.
The World Below S Fowler Wright
Even though Wright lost his nerve and rushed too much towards the end of this, his finest book, most of it remains a lesser-known work of British science fantasy to fully rival that of Wells and Lindsay.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
I've followed in the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm since childhood.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mark Rutherford (William Hale White)
A superb, late Victorian faux-biography documenting the slow loss of faith by the hero. The succeeding two volumes are almost just as good.
Befuddled by Cormorants Frank Key
I could have chosen virtually anything by the largely self-published Frank Key, who I think is the greatest living writer of nonsense. He can be heard reading his own prose on Resonance FM podcasts.
My Antonia Willa Cather
My favourite American novelist - sensitive and sublime, she makes it all seem so easy - a sign of a great author. But others show it is not.
In the Wake of Sea Serpents Bernard Heuvelmans
One of the seminal works of modern cryptozoology (the natural history of unknown or supposed fauna), by a founding father.