I like just about everything by Haruki Murakami--my favorites are 19Q4, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and South of the Border, West of the Sun.
Natsuo Kirino writes some really unsettling but really fascinating stuff. If you can stomach awful people doing awful things because of societal pressures she's worth reading. Out is her best-known work in English.
Uh, what else....I have a lot of issues with Dan Simmons, but The Terror is 3/4 of a good historical fiction novel about the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ending isn't very good, but the majority of the book is excellent, creepy survival horror.
Re: Fiction written for adults?
Natsuo Kirino writes some really unsettling but really fascinating stuff. If you can stomach awful people doing awful things because of societal pressures she's worth reading. Out is her best-known work in English.
Uh, what else....I have a lot of issues with Dan Simmons, but The Terror is 3/4 of a good historical fiction novel about the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ending isn't very good, but the majority of the book is excellent, creepy survival horror.