unfortunately i didn't have much time in the last couple of weeks for other books than for such i need for my frothcoming exams. for all that i try to vary the stuff, otherwise i'm getting bored. at this moment, by the way, i read over some stories by Ambrose Bierce. i like this kind of mystic veiled themes and authors like Poe, Lovecraft ("The Case Charles Dexter Ward" - my fave written by him). i don't find Steven King to my mind although he's known as classic in this genre, i just prefer the more refined scheme.
and i really enjoy good written detective novels, based on real criminalistic methods, knowledge, etc. no tall-stories or banal, boring murders. lately i've discovered Henning Mankell, it was Villospår i read, it's gripping!
i like the french symbolists as well (Baudelair, Rimbaud, Verlain) although the russian don't give way to them. so i got to the russian literature - i've grown up with it and it's still my weakness: Dostoevskij (i guess everyone has to read him more than once to understand and follow the thread of his thoughts, endless ego themes to debate with yourself.. at least that's the way it always happens to me), Bulgakov, Turgenev, Tchehov...
and there're some more fave authors..