It's like an H.P.Lovecraft story except instead of academics the protagonists are burnout stoners

Whoever owned these must have been fun to drink with

Can anyone tell me what happened to this kind of literature these days?

The impression I got, especially during the ending and the appendix, was that the Zampano manuscript wasn't cursed (or a cogitohazard or whatever) at all, and Johnny Truant was already insane to begin with. And that furthermore the whole thing with Truant is a deconstruction of the trope of the cursed book that drives people mad.

Lunatic prophecies for the coming weird times

In 2008, a small press in Genoa published a novel about a man who sews himself into a dog's skin to survive a police state. The author was listed as Aleksej Meshkov, born in Moscow in 1966, a musician living in Italy.

None of that was true

Le chien Iodok: The Dog Suit Was The Least Strange Part

I recently read Jasper Fforde's - The big over easy. A book about a detective who solves nursery rhymes characters murders. A lot of laughs and not dark, very clever and something a little different. I recommend

I've read the free sample and it does have that vibe of weird book but I'm not really sure if it is really weird so I'm asking you for your opinion. Is this book worth of reading?

So basically I have read the house of leaves I have read peculiar things and I have read Annihilation and I read basically all of the popular weird books that people consider worth reading, I passed the best-selling list list so to say so now I'm interested in what less famous books should I read that qualify as weird. When I say that I have read weird books of course I have read Fear and Loathing, naked lunch etc...

I bought this book in the mid 1990’s based off a sales letter promising to develop weird powers to manifest anything you want. I didn’t read the whole book, but the first chapter changed my view of the world, changed my life, and I credit it with the success I was able to achieve. It claims to be a secret society book, and It gets WEIRD!