Yes, in its time a brave piece of literature. But with laudanum in uncontrolled and widespread use back then, one could speculate how many other writers' ideas were coloured by the drug habit. Conan Doyle seemed to have showed no reluctance in making his Sherlock Holmes character a cocaine addict. A per pro of nothing, for some years I lived within a stones-throw of Lewis Carroll's house in Guildford.
James Patterson Lee Child Iris Johansen Leon Uris Michael Connelly David Baldacci John Grisham Brad Thor Vince Flynn (deceased) Kyle Mills is now writing using Flynn's characters. Harlan Coben Patricia Cornwell John Sandford
In both matter and form, that of Jorge Luis Borges.
I was going to say he complicates the notion of "fictions," but one of his collections bears precisely that title.
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I'm reading a bit about him now. Apparently, he was ahead of his time not only by predicting such things as CAD software (or the mobile phone, 35 years prior to development), but also by writing protagonists of colour at a time when they were more often green than black.
Clive Barker - - mainly for his novel "The Great and Secret Show" - - the only book that I put down for months because it scared and chilled me to my core -- and I had read everything Stephen King wrote up to that point adn never felt this way -- Barker scared me in such a gentle, quiet way -- terrifyingly wonderful)
Stu Spelling Bee 