FigCat Lists

This is a companion entry to my list of horror and supernatural modern-day RPGs.

For some people, roleplaying games are synonymous with fantastic, exotic worlds, imagined from the ground up and described in minute detail in lengthy encyclopedic sourcebooks.

This list of horror manga serves as a companion to my list of horror and supernatural comic books.

Lists of recommended books on the English-language web suffer from multiple ailments, the most serious being anglocentrism and recency bias.

There is a common belief that comic books are an ill-suited medium for the horror genre.

The famous Appendix N to the original AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide featured several seminal works of the sword and sorcery genre (including the writings of Robert E.

The way I see it, a creative work is literary if it is written down; it is not literary if it is realized in some other medium.

This list features comic books, graphic novels, and manga that fall under the broad category of science fiction.

Roleplaying games that involve traveling through parallel dimensions or time are a relatively niche subgenre within the hobby.

This list began when I was searching for books similar to Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, and H.P.

At first, this list was supposed to have a narrower focus.

In some circles, the genre of hard science fiction has a narrow definition based on strict criteria.

Strictly speaking, “pulp” is not a genre; the original pulp magazines of the early 20th century covered a wide variety of genre fiction, including aviation, crime, horror, fantasy, sports, and westerns.

The following list focuses on science fiction, fantasy, and alternative history books that are informed or influenced by left-wing political causes and theoretical perspectives.

Sadly, it appears that the term “cyberpunk” in popular usage has come to mean something like “a cool retro-futurist aesthetic involving lots of neons and cables.”