**The Tommyknockers** by Stephen King. He wrote it when he was on cocaine. It’s kind of weird.
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**Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas**, since there’s a reasonably good chance Hunter S. Thompson was always on something.
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**The Illuminatus! Trilogy** by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson is a wild satire of conspiracy theories. It was written in the ’70s so some of its cultural touchstones may not be readily apparent to younger readers.
**Alice In Wonderland** is the classic that checks your boxes.
It’s considered a poem or ballad, not a book but… (*)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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(*) Books were written to *try* to elaborate.
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It is well known that Jack Kerouac was out of his mind on Benzedrine (an amphetamine) when he wrote “On The Road”. Hence the book’s manic, rambling style.
Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was HEAVILY influenced by his experiences with LSD. Anne Rice’s “Interview With a Vampire” as well.
Basically anything by Frank Herbert will include references to a drug trip where he >!experienced ego-death, time dilation, and thought he could psychically communicate with fetuses!<. I find the “Destination: Void/Pandora Sequence” books with Bill Ransom to be the most obvious psychonaut-writing.
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Alice in Wonderland
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Gideon the ninth!!! LITERALLY THE WHOLE LOCKED TOMB SERIES ITS AMAZING BUT ALSO A MIND FUCK
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Cujo
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All these suggestions so far are male authors. I was trying to think of female authors who are known for their drug use and produced works under the influence.
Ice by Anna Kavan is surreal, disturbing and certainly may have been written either under the influence, or strongly influenced by her own experience of taking opiates.
Apparently Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged under the influence of Benzedrine which might explain some things.
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**The Tommyknockers** by Stephen King. He wrote it when he was on cocaine. It’s kind of weird.
**Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas**, since there’s a reasonably good chance Hunter S. Thompson was always on something.
**The Illuminatus! Trilogy** by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson is a wild satire of conspiracy theories. It was written in the ’70s so some of its cultural touchstones may not be readily apparent to younger readers.
**Alice In Wonderland** is the classic that checks your boxes.
Philip K Dick anything
The Naked Lunch
Hunter S. Thompson anything
**John Dies at the End**
Plot twist: In a [recent AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/17ko486/i_am_john_dies_at_the_end_author_former_cracked/), the author revealed that he never do drugs and don’t drink either.
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kesey, beat generation/Merry Pranksters
It’s considered a poem or ballad, not a book but… (*)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
​
(*) Books were written to *try* to elaborate.
It is well known that Jack Kerouac was out of his mind on Benzedrine (an amphetamine) when he wrote “On The Road”. Hence the book’s manic, rambling style.
Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was HEAVILY influenced by his experiences with LSD. Anne Rice’s “Interview With a Vampire” as well.
Basically anything by Frank Herbert will include references to a drug trip where he >!experienced ego-death, time dilation, and thought he could psychically communicate with fetuses!<. I find the “Destination: Void/Pandora Sequence” books with Bill Ransom to be the most obvious psychonaut-writing.
Alice in Wonderland
Gideon the ninth!!! LITERALLY THE WHOLE LOCKED TOMB SERIES ITS AMAZING BUT ALSO A MIND FUCK
Cujo
All these suggestions so far are male authors. I was trying to think of female authors who are known for their drug use and produced works under the influence.
Ice by Anna Kavan is surreal, disturbing and certainly may have been written either under the influence, or strongly influenced by her own experience of taking opiates.
Apparently Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged under the influence of Benzedrine which might explain some things.
Virginia Woolf?