Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations!

[Mark Thibodeau]

> I assume you’ve read all the gothic œuvre, but my favourite is Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer.

Melmoth is one that I actually haven't read, and I wouldn't say that
I'm extremely well read in the Gothic tradition. I've read many of the
Gothic classics, including The Monk, The Castle of Otranto, Vathek,
Frankenstein, and a handful more. But I'm better read in the later
19th century French/Parisian "Satanic" side of things (of which Vathek
is a great example, as are A Rebours and La-Bas, by Huysmans). Do you
have any other Gothic Horror recommendations for me? I've added
Melmoth to my "should purchase" list!

> Also I’m also guessing you’ve been there and done that with all of Jeff Vandermeer’s work(?)

Aside from seeing the film version of Annihilation (which I love) and
reading a bunch of his short stories (as well as he and his wife's
collection The New Weird), I have not. I thought some of his short
work was interesting, but it didn't catch my brain and shake it, like
the work of, say Ramsey Campbell (one of my absolute favorite authors
writing in any genre) or (a new one for me) Mike Allen does.  Should I
pick up the novel for Annihilation and its sequels?

YOPJ