Inferno & From an Occult Diary

10 best books like Inferno & From an Occult Diary (August Strindberg): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Brighton Rock, The Illustrated Man, Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Overcoming Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, How to be Famous, The Devils of Loudun, The Missing Girl

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Author	Charles Dickens
ISBN	0140439269

Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...

Brighton Rock

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0099478471

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear,...

The Illustrated Man

Author

Ray Bradbury

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction,...

Nineteen Seventy Four

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427418

It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford's got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched to her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.

In Nineteen...

Nineteen Seventy Seven

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427442

The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...

The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages

Author	Paul Foster Case
ISBN	1585424919

Many students of the Western esoteric tradition consider Paul Foster Case's The Tarot the finest explanation that has yet appeared on the occult meaning of numbers, the construction of the Tarot, and the attribution of the 22 Major Trumps to the Hebrew alphabet.

In clear and understandable...

Overcoming Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Author	Helen Kennerley
ISBN	1854874225

The classic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy guide to managing anxiety.The accessible and straightforward books in the Overcoming Series treat disorders by changing unhelpful patterns of behavior and thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is internationally favored as a practical means...

How to be Famous

Author	Caitlin Moran
ISBN	1443448524

A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways."

You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It...

The Devils of Loudun

Author

Aldous Huxley

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history....

The Missing Girl

Author	Shirley Jackson
ISBN	0241339286

Penguin seems to release a new range of dinky paperbacks every year now for one flimsy reason or another. This Penguin Modern series is to celebrate Penguin Modern Classics’ 50th Anniversary or something - meh. I guess these tiny books do serve as fairly decent amuse-bouches of a writer’s style...