Arcane Thriller Authors?

[JRakovan]

Dan Brown couldn't write a grocery list

anyway:in the genre you are looking for there is plenty of good stuff..very very good stuff

first try

umberto eco, the name of the rose

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=395104&x1=Y

umberto eco foucaults pendulum

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=394634&x1=Y

Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=394634&x1=Y

then

read the book dan brown ripped off

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=101889&x1=Y


read more bad sensationalist occult history

http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=703662&x1=Y


off the top of my head, i would also suggest trying some borges, some lovecraft, some histories on catharism, freemasonry, the cosmic trigger books,skinny legs and all,stephenson's quicksilver ( if quasi-historical fiction is your bag) maybe some of the old frank yerby stuff..an odor of sanctity is pretty good...there is tons of this sort of thing, potboilers with occult themes, sensationalist histories and fiction based around secret orders...also some good research out there about templars, etc.. iremember one particulary wretched example of occult detective novels from the sixties that used genuine occult rituals and such..um i want to say simon magus, or simon templar or something like that..anyway, i recall one about secret orders, tantric sexual rituals and werewolves..it was awful, but i loved it ..it was called "lady sativa" i think

 

[Worm]

Hey Thanx 'JRakovan'.
I've already placed an order for 'Umberto Eco Foucaults Pendulum'.I hope its good.Care to tell the synopsis of it.

 

[sirmyk]

Dan Brown couldn't write a grocery list

Obviously Dan Brown can write a grocery list. That grocery list is called The daVinci Code. You can find cabbage, lima beans, pickled pork hooves, and other various crap on his receipt.

 

[JRakovan]

"I've already placed an order for 'Umberto Eco Foucaults Pendulum'.I hope its good.Care to tell the synopsis of it."


something along the lines of "peep not through keyholes lest ye be vexed" or "when you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back" or somesuch...

basically, a story about an attempt to generate the ultimate conspiracy theory, taking time to visit every knights templar-illuminati-fremasonry-alchemical-rosicrucian bit of crack-pottery along the way..well written, insanely detailed and even has some of the "thriller' motif's..it even involves some of the 'holy blood holy grail' stuff that dan brown burgles.

 

[JRakovan]

oh yeah, and how could i forget

the crying of lot 49


http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=411621&x1=Y

 

[nighthawk]

I'm not sure if Sylvian Hamiliton, The Bone Peddlar and the other books in this series qualifys, written in the time of King John it is the of a peddlar in religious relics. It is sitting on my tbr mountain but the reviews were good