The rough guide to Cult Fiction is an eclectic and essential guide to the literary world's greatest cult authors and the facts behind their fiction. Even if you know your Hunter s. Thompson from your Jim Thompson, do you know which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which eccentric author enjoyed ice-skating in an armchair, and which writer inspired a Broadway musical and the Velvet Underground ? Features include :
The Authors Critical coverage of more than 200 cult writers, from Walter Abish to Richard Zimler, with potted biographies, must reads and surprising influences.
Graphic Novels The low-down on Alan Moore, Hergé, Neil Gaiman and other legends.
The Isolation Ward Seminal books by authors who never became cult figures but wrote one classic work.
A Cult Collection A feast of trivia revealing the authors who wrote standing up, the literary heavyweights who wanted to be boxing heavyweights, and the little-known novels of Benito Mussolini and Sarah Bernhardt.
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