Grotesque


The Metamorphosis
Lapvona
Tender Is the Flesh
Geek Love
The Vegetarian
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Exquisite Corpse
Crash
The Gargoyle
Wise Blood
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
In the Miso Soup
The Trial
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayHere Beside the Rising Tide by Emily  JaneTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Summer of Speculative Reading
53 books — 21 voters
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontDiableries by Brian MayFantazius Mallare by Ben HechtThe City of Dreadful Night by James  ThomsonMalformed by Adam Voorhes
•The Ultra-Black Grave of Eternity
133 books — 9 voters

Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Surreal Horror
88 books — 79 voters

Francois Rabelais Man of the Renaissance by Samuel PutnamCatalogue of the Choice Books Found By Pantagruel in the Abbe... by François RabelaisDe Rabelais a Dalí by Beatriz Fernandez RuizLes songes drolatiques de Pantagruel by Richard BretonHenry Miller by John Parkin
Rabelaisiania
53 books — 1 voter

Sherwood Anderson
In principio, quando il mondo era giovane, c'erano molti pensieri ma non esisteva nulla si simile a una verità. Le verità le fabbricò l'uomo, e ogni verità fu composta da un grande numero di pensieri imprecisi. Così in tutto il mondo ci furono verità. Ed erano meravigliose. Il vecchio aveva elencato nel suo libro centinaia di verità. Io non cercherò di riferirvele tutte. C'erano la verità della verginità e la verità della passione, la verità della ricchezza e quella della povertà, della modestia ...more
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

Charles Baudelaire
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosp ...more
Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

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