People with unusual taste in fiction - what do you like to read?

[TheProvincialLady]

I really like Sensation fiction (Victorian melodrama with lots of bad female characters, murders, poisonings, mental asylums and hidden wills etc). I don't know anyone else who has read more than a couple, say Lady Audley's Secret and The Woman in White. I mostly find my reading matter in second hand bookshops. I love reading these books because they are so entertaining, they have lots of words (I am a fast and voracious reader)and I am always morally improved by the end

So tell me about what you like and why - I'm curious.

i'm into gothic fiction - "The monk" by Matthew Lewis is scary, very good!, "Uncle Silas" etc. That sort of thing.
I also like all vampire stories (except the modern ones by Anne Rice)

have you read 'the madness of kings' by vivian green? am alays looking for something in the same genre....