I am addicted to reading horror.. so I would recommend Anne Rice's first 3 in the original vampire series, interview with the vampire, vampire lestat and queen of the damned, I think. you probably read and seen the first though. I guess it's like recommending lotr, everyone has done it.
H.P. Lovecraft never ceases to amaze me, so young, so talented.
If not horror, then.. oh I don't know.. Gilgamesj ?

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