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 +[[Image:Marquis de Sade by H. Biberstein, 1866.jpg|thumb|right|200px|
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 +[[Image:Index Librorum Prohibitorum.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' ("[[banned books|List of Prohibited Books]]") is a list of publications which the [[Catholic|Catholic Church]] [[censorship|censored]] for being a [[danger]] to itself and the faith of its members. The various [[edition]]s also contain the rules of the [[Church]] relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of [[morality|immoral]] books or works containing [[theology|theological]] errors and to prevent the [[corruption]] of the faithful.]]
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'''Cult fiction''' is a term used to denote [[literature]] that has attracted a [[cult following]]. '''Cult fiction''' is a term used to denote [[literature]] that has attracted a [[cult following]].
-Books that tend to attract a cult following include [[List of banned books|banned books]], [[Transgressional fiction|transgressive fiction]], [[List of controversial books|controversial books]], [[erotic literature]] and [[genre fiction]]. +Books that tend to attract a cult following include [[banned books]], [[Transgressional fiction|transgressive fiction]], [[List of controversial books|controversial books]], [[erotic literature]], [[Drugs in literature|drug literature]], [[Rants and Incendiary Tracts|rants and incendiary tracts]] and some [[genre fiction]]. The earliest compilation of cult fiction was the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' (index of prohibited books) by the Catholic church.
== Bibliography == == Bibliography ==
-*''Cult Fiction: A Reader's Guide'' (1998) - Andrew Calcutt+*''[[Curiosities of Literature]]'' (4 vols. [[1791]]-[[1823]]; single vol. [[1824]]) by [[Isaac D'Israeli]],
-*''Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory'' (1998) - Clive Bloom+*''Cult Fiction: A Reader's Guide'' (1998) - [[Andrew Calcutt]]
-*''Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature'' (1992) - Thomas Reed Whissen+*''Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory'' (1998) - [[Clive Bloom]]
 +*''[[Classic Cult Fiction|Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature]]'' (1992) - [[Thomas Reed Whissen]]
*''[[The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction]]'' (2005) - Michaela Bushell, Helen Rodiss, Paul Simpson *''[[The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction]]'' (2005) - Michaela Bushell, Helen Rodiss, Paul Simpson
- +*''[[Anthology of Black Humor]]'' (1940) - [[André Breton]]
==Examples of cult books== ==Examples of cult books==
*''[[Anti-Œdipus]]'' ([[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]]) *''[[Anti-Œdipus]]'' ([[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]])
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*''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'' ([[Anthony Burgess]]) *''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'' ([[Anthony Burgess]])
*''[[The Dice Man]]'' ([[Luke Rhinehart]]) *''[[The Dice Man]]'' ([[Luke Rhinehart]])
-*''[[Dispatches (book)|Dispatches]]'' ([[Michael Herr]])  
*''[[The Doors of Perception]]'' ([[Aldous Huxley]]) *''[[The Doors of Perception]]'' ([[Aldous Huxley]])
*''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' ([[Frank Herbert]]) *''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' ([[Frank Herbert]])
*''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' ([[Tom Wolfe]]) *''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' ([[Tom Wolfe]])
-*''[[Ender's Game]]'' ([[Orson Scott Card]]) 
*''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' ([[Hunter S. Thompson]]) *''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' ([[Hunter S. Thompson]])
*''[[The Female Eunuch]]'' ([[Germaine Greer]]) *''[[The Female Eunuch]]'' ([[Germaine Greer]])
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*''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' ([[Robert Anton Wilson]] and [[Robert Shea]]) *''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' ([[Robert Anton Wilson]] and [[Robert Shea]])
*''[[Journey to the End of the Night]]'' ([[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]) *''[[Journey to the End of the Night]]'' ([[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]])
-*''[[Laws of Form]]'' ([[G. Spencer-Brown]]) 
*''[[Le Grand Meaulnes]]'' ([[Alain-Fournier]]) *''[[Le Grand Meaulnes]]'' ([[Alain-Fournier]])
*''[[Less Than Zero]]'' ([[Brett Easton Ellis]]) *''[[Less Than Zero]]'' ([[Brett Easton Ellis]])
*''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' ([[J. R. R. Tolkien]]) *''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' ([[J. R. R. Tolkien]])
 +*''[[Musk, Hashish and Blood]]'' ([[1886]]) by [[Hector France]]
*''[[Naked Lunch]]'' ([[William S. Burroughs]]) *''[[Naked Lunch]]'' ([[William S. Burroughs]])
*''[[Neuromancer]]'' ([[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]]) *''[[Neuromancer]]'' ([[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]])
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*''[[On the Road]]'' ([[Jack Kerouac]]) *''[[On the Road]]'' ([[Jack Kerouac]])
*''[[The Outsider]]'' ([[Albert Camus]]) *''[[The Outsider]]'' ([[Albert Camus]])
-*''[[Siddhartha]]'' ([[Hermann Hesse]])+*''[[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' ([[Hermann Hesse]])
*''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' ([[Kurt Vonnegut]]) *''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' ([[Kurt Vonnegut]])
-*''[[The Storm of Steel]]'' ([[Ernst Jünger]])  
*''[[The Story of the Eye]]'' ([[Georges Bataille]]) *''[[The Story of the Eye]]'' ([[Georges Bataille]])
*''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' ([[Robert A. Heinlein]]) *''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' ([[Robert A. Heinlein]])
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*''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' ([[Robert Pirsig]]) *''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' ([[Robert Pirsig]])
-==Cult fiction== 
-[[cult fiction]] is fiction that has attracted a [[cult following]]. 
- 
-<blockquote> 
-[[Kathy Acker]], [[J. G. Ballard]] , [[Iain Banks]] , [[John Barth]] , [[Poppy Z. Brite]], [[Charles Bukowski]], [[Anthony Burgess]] , [[William S Burroughs]] , [[Albert Camus]] , [[Angela Carter]] ,[[ Nik Cohn]] , [[Colette]] , [[Dennis Cooper]] , [[Douglas Coupland]] , [[Don DeLillo]] , [[Philip K Dick]] , [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ,[[ Nick Earls]] , [[Bret Easton Ellis]] , [[James Ellroy]] , [[William Faulkner]] , [[John Fowles]] , [[William Gibson]] , [[André Gide]] , [[William Golding]] , [[Alasdair Gray]] , [[Radclyffe Hall]] , [[Knut Hamsun]] , [[Joseph Heller]] , [[Hermann Hesse]] , [[Carl Hiaasen]] , [[S.E. Hinton]] , [[Nick Hornby]] , [[Aldous Huxley]] , [[John Irving]] , [[Erica Jong]] , [[James Joyce]] , [[Franz Kafka]] , [[Jack Kerouac]] , [[Ken Kesey]] , [[Stephen King]] , [[Milan Kundera]] , [[Hanif Kureishi]] , [[Harper Lee]] , [[Elmore Leonard]] , [[Doris Lessing]] , [[Mark Leyner]] , [[H P Lovecraft]] , [[Carson McCullers]] , [[Ian McEwan]] , [[Patrick McGrath]] , [[Jay McInerney]] , [[Colin MacInnes]] , [[Norman Mailer]] , [[Henry Miller]] , [[Yukio Mishima]] , [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Walter Mosley]] , [[Vladimir Nabokov]] , [[Anais Nin]] , [[Jeff Noon]] , [[Joyce Carol Oates]] , [[Chuck Palahniuk]] , [[Mervyn Peake]] , [[Sylvia Plath]] , [[Richard Price]] , [[Thomas Pynchon]] , [[Ayn Rand]] , [[Luke Rhinehart]] , [[Anne Rice]] , [[Tom Robbins]] , [[Marquis de Sade]] , [[J D Salinger]] , [[Jean Paul Sartre]] , [[Hubert Selby]] , [[Will Self]] , [[Bruce Sterling]] , [[Robert Stone]] , [[D. M. Thomas]] , [[Hunter S Thompson]] , [[Jim Thompson]] , [[Gore Vidal]] , [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut Jr]] , [[Irvine Welsh]] , [[Jeanette Winterson]] , [[Tom Wolfe]] --accessed on http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/cultfiction.asp, [Jan 2004]  
-</blockquote> 
-===From the The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (2005)===+== See also ==
-See ''[[The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction]]''+*''[[1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die]]''
 +*[[Cult classic]]
 +*[[Lists of 100 best books]]
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This page Cult fiction is part of the Marquis de Sade series
Illustration: Portrait fantaisiste du marquis de Sade (1866) by H. Biberstein
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.
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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.

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Cult fiction is a term used to denote literature that has attracted a cult following.

Books that tend to attract a cult following include banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial books, erotic literature, drug literature, rants and incendiary tracts and some genre fiction. The earliest compilation of cult fiction was the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books) by the Catholic church.

Bibliography

Examples of cult books


See also




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