Dark humor novels?

[that_evening]

I have been looking for a few dark humor novels. I am interested in ones dealing with twisted (totally out there/unrealistic is fine with me) and/or morbid plot lines but told in an amusing manner. What can I say? It is the state of mind I'm in right now. ;) What do you recommend?

Comments

[obstruce]

Most of Christopher Moore's stuff is really funny, and pretty dark. A lot of murder and demons and small quick witticisms.

Practical Demonkeeping, A Dirty Job, and Bloodsucking Fiends are all good... Actually, everything he writes is good. :)

[kondo85]

i wrote my senior thesis on Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as black comedy, so i recommend it! :)

[kondo85]

it's not a novel though; it's a play. sorry! i misread the OP.

[deadache139]

Anything by Evelyn Waugh will fit that exactly.

[flavordav]

Don't know how "dark" Waugh'd appear these days per se, but does perhaps demonstrate nonetheless why the French call it l'humour Anglaise ...

[deadache139]

He is dark in the way he treats everything with his scathing wit, and does not pause to sympathize, even with death.

[flavordav]

Well, the key word is "anymore." I suspect a lot of "dark" humor doesn't come off nearly so much so anymore (Waugh being someone I haven't read much of, but i have read relatively recently). Not that the books have lost their edge, just that the world has become that much edgier, is all ...

[hey_oblomov]

Journey to the End of Night or Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. I can't think of anything darker.

[belle_minceur]

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides