Jeremy Sheldon's top 10 supernatural books

[Dave Monroe]

Jeremy Sheldon's top 10 supernatural books

Jeremy Sheldon's debut novel, The Smiling Affair, is a
literary thriller about a melancholic ghost-hunter
named Jay Richards. Set variously in San Francisco,
North Carolina and Ibiza, this atmospheric tale
explores the relationship between love, obsession and
memory. The Smiling Affair is published by Jonathan
Cape on July 14 2005.
Buy it at the Guardian bookshop

1. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Although this isn't a supernatural novel in the
received sense, Pynchon's hilarious and typically
wide-ranging narrative sees its cast of stoners,
ninjettes, hippy-chicks and karmic adjusters come up
against a multitude other-worldly forces and entities,
including a mysterious community of undead called the
Thanatoids.

2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The story of this novel's conception never seems to
dull....

[...]

6. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Just as the idea that Humbert hallucinates his sexual
experiences with Delores Haze is a fanciful but
nonetheless intriguing reading of Lolita, so is the
idea that the ghosts of the Shades influence the
narrative of Pale Fire.

[...]

10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Yes, it's a play. But this negative image of Macbeth
is still fascinating for presenting us with a hero who
plays against type, genre and convention to resist the
will of the supernatural in favour of investigating
its provenance. 

http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,1528478,00.html

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