Bizzare Literature

Mount Analogue sounds incredible, is it hard to find a copy of it?

>>9118969
I had to order it in from out of state because my uni library (the biggest library in Kansas, don't know if that says much) didn't have it.

The Book of the Damned and The Beginning was the End both had to be checked out of special collections for me to read. Worth it, though.

there's another rare Daumal book in English titled Mugle and the Silk. I've never been able to find an affordable copy but I think it's stuff he wrote when he was experimenting with carbon tetrachloride to give himself near death experiences.

>>9118957
http://disinfo.com/2012/12/opti-and-i-one-mans-experiences-with-a-hyperdimensional-creature/
Give this a read.

William Peter Blatty wrote some weird shit

If you like Fort try the Fortean Times and other related stuffs. You want "weird" literature probably, not "bizarre".

>>9118969
Bear in mind that The Mount... is an incomplete work, he died while writing it. What we have is only like 1/3, or even less, of what he wanted to write. So it may be dissapointing, but very interesting nonetheless

leedskalnin

Maybe Julian Jaynes

Look into Colin Wilson -- specifically his Occult and Beyond the Occult books, for a THOUSAND recommendations on this (Fortean) note, plus the bits of intellectual biography that make them truly interesting (IMHO) by showing how their bizarreness was usually rooted in their strange esoteric philosophical inclinations

Similarly on that note, Arthur Koestler's lesser known stuff

Lord Dunsany's fiction

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>In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women

>Blue cloth binding: four and three-quarter inches tall by seven and three-quarter inches wide. Published in 1944. The right margin is unjustified in a way that suggests verse-but it is clearly prose. The first thing one notices, opening the book, is clusters of names-names of men and women, most of them writers, many well known. But then, even more striking, it becomes obvious that each page contains only one sentence, and it is always-except for the names-almost the same sentence.

http://www.ubu.com/historical/wolgamot/wolgamot.pdf

>>9119224
>You want "weird" literature probably, not "bizarre"

pretty sure i want bizarre since that's what i said u fuckface

check out the bible.

>>9119691
>lord Dunsay
Nice my man
Speaking of Dunsay, I'm surprised there's been no mention of Lovecraft yet

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>>9118957
SWTPD

>>9120622
lovecraft's lesser read stuff is actually really great, like the dream cycle and the stuff that focuses on consciousness/our reality being just the surface of what's really real

colin wilson also has some great lovecraftian stuff - the philosopher's stone and the mind parasites - written at the request (actually challenge, since wilson denigrated lovecraft) of derleth

>>9119192
What the fuck is this?

Journal of Albion Moonlight

>>9118957
>/x/'s Mega upload of occultist writings: https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ

Unfortunately they're all PDFs (no epubs) but it's still a good collection of the bizarre imo.

>>9120627
is that phaistos disc

>>9118957
You will love this OP

The Interface series: https://www.reddit.com/user/_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9
The anonymous writer posted the story in instalments through hijacking random reddit threads.

Personally I think it was written by one of the writers on Stranger Things, because the timing and themes were just too coincidental, but it goes way further.

What about that JG Ballard book?

>>9118957
Récoltes et Semailles

>>9118957
By Reza Negarestani, 'The Dust Enforcer'

If you're at all like me, and this thread makes me think you might be, I should think it'd stimulate your mentatas something fierce

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>>9118957

>He says that blacks have smaller brains than whites[18] and that contemporary cannibal tribes are seeking to remedy this discrepancy by consuming brains in a frantic attempt to catch up, though he estimates that it would take them roughly 100,000 years to do so

>>9121471
Picked up

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>He asserts that humanity evolved from two groups of apes: one peaceful, vegetarian and practicing free love; the other violent, carnivorous and given to fighting over sex partners. Originally all were of the former group. However, Eisler argues that Ice Age food shortages caused some to imitate wolves and other beasts of prey, wearing animal skins and taking up hunting. He claims this is the historical basis of the werewolf legends found in many cultures.

>Eisler advocates a return to what he imagines was the harmonious life of the earliest primates and proposes the development of a new psychology and ultimately a new society, lest we are destroyed in a nuclear war brought about by descendants of the wolf-men.

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>>9119837
>>In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women
is this where tortoise got the song name from?

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Codex Seraphinianus

Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' is set in the bizarre world where market economies actually function better than controlled ones.

>>9123099
I'd guess. Tortoise is great though. 9/10 album.

>>9124278
lel

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>>9124278
I DO find it interesting that no one else has ever tried to copy or 'cash in' on the genre she invented.

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>>9118957
Try Roald Dahl's adult short stories.

>>9121330
Which one? all his shit seems pretty off the rails

>>9120920
>>9119837
>>9119823
>>9119691
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>>9119211
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>>9121458
Thanks anons, this is some interesting shit

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Thomas Ligotti might interest u. Check out his collections of short stories

>>9118957
Speaking of Mount Analogue, watch Holy Mountain if you haven't already. I know it's not exactly on the books topic but it took it's inspiration directly from the book.

>>9125045
definitely read ashley and walrop's recollections of wolgamot at the start of the book. very interesting man. almost magical.

Will Self

>>9121182
occultism isn't that bizarre. it's where people make up terms for shit that doesn't exist so they can trick people into thinking they know stuff "conventional" science doesn't understand.

isn't it odd that in an age of ubiquitous camera phones, the only pics of cryptids, ufos and ghosts are the ludicrously badly shooped?

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>>9123124
waiting for it to come out in english. lol.

>>9118957

Charles Williams. Friend of Tolkien and Lewis but also of Alistair Crowley. His stuff is pretty weird.

>>9120602
You don't know what you want.

>>9118957
Urmuz - Bizarre Pages

"In the Realms of the Unreal: Insane Writings"--the best of stuff written by mental patients


Also, not exactly lit, but the art book/biography combinations:

A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions
Adolf Wölfli: Creator of the Universe
Charles Dellschau

And many more, but those are the ones I've read myself.

Also check out stuff edited by Adam Parfrey (published under Feral House imprint and others).

There's also all the Church of the Subgenius and Discordianism publications. There
s Subgenius publication called "HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL" which is another collection of writings by "insane" people. But I guess a lot of people here would consider those Babby's First Weirdness.

Adam Gorightly is another guy in the Discordian/Subgenius vein of weirdness that might be worth checking out, although I haven't read any of his stuff myself.

Some of the Disinformation Publishing company stuff might be of interest to you as well, although I never really got that into their stuff.

And I leave you with some classic Francis E. Dec rants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLhnts9-oQ&list=PLOJErWQAp1muG3nWwcZLSnVxPB_ARWgzL

>>9127545
"HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL" is out of print but I found an index of websites by the subjects of the book: http://www.subgenius.com/hwbw.htm

And another website on "crackpotology" here: http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

>>9118969
I have a pdf copy. It's as weird as OP makes it to be. Sadly, it's not finished. I don't know how to send it to you though.

>>9127769
I got you:

https://mega.nz/#!PlN32RoS!pzmgPEsq251Citp0a714GIwzv9UlWZG8CMGXmB6MS7Y

>>9126346
>Urmuz
Yes. Also:
Daniil Kharms - anything by him
Nathalie Sarraute - Tropismes
Leonora Carrington - The Hearing Trumpet
Marcel Schwob - Vies imaginaires
Francis Ponge - The Soap (and any other of his short prose poems about things)
Julien Gracq - Le rivage des Syrtes
Alfred Jarry - Dr. Faustroll (the actual title is too long for me to type on this shit phone)
Max Blecher - Adventures in Immediate Reality
Henri Michaux - there's a collection of short texts in English, I forget the title
Raymond Roussel - Impressions d'Afrique
Gellu Naum - Zenobia

All this is mostly surrealist stuff from the first half of the 20th century, as is Mount Analogue. There's nothing occult or actually insane, so if you're into that you'd better check out other recommendations in this thread. Also, what this guy >>9119224 is trying to express and failing is (I think) that there's this fairly recent genre called "bizarro" lit, which is not surrealism or any of the above. It's shit but if you want to have a taste look up "Ass Goblins of Auschwitz" or something like that.

>>9127823
>>9127769
ily boys