u/owensum

Looking for things (novels/stories) that feature a landscape/zonal presence, eerie genius loci (not cheesy), or geologic weird. Not looking for gothic ghost stories, however. Examples:

• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
• The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• The Crystal World & The Terminal Beach by JG Ballard

(to head off suggestions: I dont think Area X quite counts, as the weirdness is expressed biologically not geologically, same for The Other Side of the Mountain; Roadside Picnic & Nova Swing are cool but looking for something more embedded in nature. And yeah, I know Clark Ashton Smith's Genius Loci.. a bit dated. Ive read all of Ballard's (very good) disaster zone work)

Thank you!!