alright i'm working on an autistic worldbuilding project and i want some relatively obscure public domain works of literature that would be inter...

alright i'm working on an autistic worldbuilding project and i want some relatively obscure public domain works of literature that would be interesting to incorporate. as neat as they are i am tired of the majority of basic b***h public domain characters, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Frankenstein and his Monster. (even though i'm using the final two).
here are the ones i have so far that are obscure (at least to normalgays)
>Fishhead, Irvin S. Cobb
>The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan-Doyle
>The Wendigo, Algernon Blackwood.
>Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwood, William T. Cox.
>Gladiator, Philip Wylie
>Beyond Lies The Wug, Philip K. Dick
what are some other suggestions for obscure PD kinos to incorporate?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Gormenghast Trilogy, John Silence, Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monk, Wieland, The Golem and McTeague

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      thanks for the suggestions

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The Gormenghast Trilogy
      This is not in the public domain. OP wants public domain characters to steal from.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan-Doyle
    Do you mean The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice-Boroughs, or The Lost World by Arthur Conan-Doyle?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      edgar rice boroughs, not the lost world. my bad.
      i'm not using The Lost World

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why? They’re just dinosaurs. Can you please elaborate on your project.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's primarily centered around public domain IQfy capeshit and certain IQfy pulp fiction characters
          tldr: i'm writing the accounts of a WWII Era team of superheroes working on behalf of the U.S government and their exploits during and after the war. (and the pre-ww2 history of said superheroes, dating back to when Hugo Danner, the protagonist of Gladiator. was born)
          this includes reports (for lack of any better term) of their missions from 1943 to the early sixties. them being sent off to deal with whatever supernatural or weird bullshit ol' Uncle Sam doesn't feel like dealing with themselves.
          including, but not limited to
          >being sent to Castle Dracula to kill the count before he allies with Germany and tries to rape England (again)
          >preventing the Nazis from re-discovering whatever lost scientific principle Victor Frankenstein used to create the creature
          etc.
          i was planning to incorporate The Land That Time Forgot into one of these. but now that i think about it The Lost World would probably be more interesting to work with

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The Lost World would probably be more interesting to work with
            I would love to see prof. Challenger make an appearance. I think he’s rather an underrated character.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Worm Ouroboros, Eddison
    Gods of Pegena, Time and the Gods, Jorkens stories, all of Dunsany including his poetry
    All of Blackwood
    All of Melville (Pierre, Confidence Man, Piazza Tales, Israel Potter, Poetry, etc.)
    Maybe MP Shiel if you like him
    Clark Ashton Smith Stories and Poems
    Edgar Allan Poe Stories and Poems
    Washington Irving Tales
    Nathaniel Hawthorne Novels and Tales
    Coming Race and Bulwer Lytton Novels/Tales
    Swinburne's Poems and one novel
    Marius the Epicurean
    Alice 2 novels, Sylvie and Bruno, Carroll's Poetry

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Clark Ashton Smith Stories and Poems
      Most of it is not in the public domain in the US.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's so easy to navigate around that lol.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What do you mean?

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What about HG Wells, he has some interesting characters/creatures. Also Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game could be a good villain

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Already done before.
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Silverlock

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i'm fully aware of League, in fact. it's what inspired me to do this.
      but my iteration of the same concept is different enough to be unique, i think.
      mine is more focused on IQfy from the 1920s to the 60s with only a relatively small smattering of IQfy content.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hypnerotomachia of Poliphili

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gods of peganna, based op.

    didnt read it ( >inb4 any comment about books being better than audiobooks shut up i know ) but listened to it on audiobook while cycling and was entranced

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >what are some other suggestions for obscure PD kinos to incorporate?
    The Gormenghast Trilogy, John Silence, Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monk, Wieland, The Golem and McTeague

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Gormenghast
      >public domain

  9. 2 years ago
    Voluntary Fool
  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Perseverance Island: The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century

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