 | Adverbs: A Novel by Daniel Handler
Buy used from: $2.95 Several connected stories of relationships between people who may or may not be the same person the next time their name comes up.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $2.79 I know, I know, this is a rather obvious choice, but come on. A lot of the weirdest stories in literature were inspired somehow by this book.
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 | Anthony Shriek by Jessica Salmonson
Buy used from: $0.01 Take a trip into the gothic worlds of Anthony's imagination.
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 | Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.00 Any day now.
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 | The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Buy used from: $0.01 So what's scarier; the funhole, what it did to Nicholas's hand, or his friend Nakota?
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| Dead Girls by Richard Calder
Buy used from: $0.01 I had absolutely no idea what was going on and couldn't stop reading. This would make one hell of an anime.
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 | Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $0.64 Guess who we're having for dinner?
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 | From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Incase you were ever wondering how Charles Addams thought of his spooky fictional family...
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 | Gasoline by Dame Darcy
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $20.82 I won't lie, the writing is pretty bad. But the illustrations are fantastic and make it forgivable. Plus, it has one of the strangest endings I've ever read.
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 | Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.95 Mutant freaks, a cult revolving around amputation, incest, psychic powers, and a mother who's a little too obsessive for her own good.
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 | God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: $10.26 / Used from: $3.18 You wanna talk about blurring the line between reality and the virtual? Grab a Nintendo controller and take a look.
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 | Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.25 The old themes of isolation, writer's block, and paranoia are twisted tight enough to pop in this compulsively readable and very, very disturbing book.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.24 I suppose it would make one's eyes roll to see how many times this book ends up on my reccomendation lists. But I can't ignore that this is one freaky, twisted, and incredible book.
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 | The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $3.78 A disturbing little gothic tale.
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 | The Man on the Ceiling (Discoveries) by Steve Rasnic Tem
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 The fictional autobiography of two horror authors and the strange presence in their very strange home.
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 | The Music of Razors by Cameron Rogers
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 A multi-layered, extremely bizarre yet never confusing story that brings back memories of reading Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' for the first time.
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 | Only Revolutions: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.88 Literally the most twisted book I've ever read.
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 | The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $4.88 Hope to god that your child never finds his or her way to Mr. Hood's Holiday House.
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 | Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.42 Block's psychedellic urban fairytales about Weetzie's large, crazy family are an absolute joy to read.
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