Examples of fantasy, science fiction, horror texts in music

The Tolkien music thread
Tolkien Music s/d

Mervyn Peake
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Babaji/gormenghast-in-music/

William Hope Hodgson
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2013/04/04/hodgsonian-vibrations/
https://www.discogs.com/Ahab-The-Boats-Of-The-Glen-Carrig/master/876543
https://rhythmplex.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-on-the-borderland

HP Lovecraft
http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.aspx
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Cthulhu/the_lovecraft_connection/

Lord Dunsany
https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Johnson-Pete-Knight-The-King-Of-Elflands-Daughter/master/327780

Tanith Lee
http://daughterofthenight.com/tlmusic.html

Moorcock
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Metallkrieger/eternal_champion/
I've heard that some Summoning songs have references

Frost's "Milliontown" was based on The Apprentice by Gordon Houghton (I fucking love this song).

Dave Greenslade done a Terry Pratchett album.

Thomas Ligotti/Current 93

Master Of The Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy inspired a Megadeth song.

C. Dean Andersson/Asa Drake's Hel/Bloodsong series inspired Bathory's "One Rode to Asa Bay”

I bet tons of this is awful so it's more of a trivia thread than a recommendation one. I'm sure there's a bunch of CS Lewis and Robert E Howard pages on music. Don't know if Camel's Snow Goose book is a realistic book about a goose, cant be bothered checking now.

Bonus points for really unexpected writers.

Snow Goose is a depressing ass story about Dunkirk. (or it sounds like it is, I haven't read it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Goose:_A_Story_of_Dunkirk

It's not really fantasy per se. I guess maybe it is.

Quite a few here, mostly usual suspects writers but had no idea Iron Maiden did so much of it.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Liero/music-inspired-by-literature/

This is a fascinating various artists compilation I haven't heard. Music for The Devil In Love by Jacques Cazotte. Includes Art Zoyd, Gavin Friday, Jarboe, John Zorn, Keiji Haino and more. I cant imagine many of these bands had read the book before being asked to do this, but what a lineup!
https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Devil-In-Love-A-Soundtrack-To-The-1772-Occult-Novel/release/2930312

One for Edgar Allan Poe, supposed to be more of a set of readings than music but it features Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Diamanda Galás, Gavin Friday, Jeff Buckley, Dr. John and Deborah Harry. Another amazing lineup.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various_artists_f2/closed_on_account_of_rabies___poems_and_tales_of_edgar_allan_poe/

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/music/misc/SF-references-in-music_List
This page is a tough read (and most of it isn't based on any text) but using control+F for terms like "based on", I found...

Happy The Man (Samuel R Delany)
Stuart Hamm (Philip K Dick, William Gibson)
Joy Division (Ballard)
Oingo Boingo (HG Wells)
Tom Rapp (Ray Bradbury)
Monkees (Heinlein)

This Jimi Hendrix and Philip Jose Farmer thing
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-secret-science-fiction-inspiration-behind-jimi-hend-5634580

I'm guessing Univers Zero based their name on a Jacques Sternberg story, add to this the similarity of a collection with a similar title to an Art Zoyd album.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?447023
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?316438

The Howling Hex album Rogue Moon was inspired by an sf novel of the same title; I don’t know how explicit the lyrical references are.

Is the song about teleporting into a lunar death maze?

Ex-ilxor writing about Ursula K Le Guin's electronica alb:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/mar/27/ursula-k-le-guins-electronica-album-music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh

Guessed the byline wrong.

Haggerty/Herrema have a few i think, cf Royal Trux “Shockwave Rider” (John Brunner novel)

Tons of Hawkwind/Moorcock stuff of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination_(Alan_Parsons_Project_album)

jefferson airplane's crown of creation lifts some of its lines verbatim from a john wyndham novel (pretty sure it was the chrysalids)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81UO1qNE1vL._SL1500_.jpg

"Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds", a 1978 album that's exactly what it says on the tin.

Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of Red Death as done by Thrice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWymj3yQ7Y

One for Edgar Allan Poe, supposed to be more of a set of readings than music but it features Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Diamanda Galás, Gavin Friday, Jeff Buckley, Dr. John and Deborah Harry. Another amazing lineup.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various_artists_f2/closed_on_account_of_rabies___poems_and_tales_of_edgar_allan_poe/

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, October 13, 2019 4:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I had this but don't remember anything about it except for Dr. John's reading of Berenice. Mr. Bungle quoted a few lines of Berenice in Carry Stress in the Jaw. They make up the bulk of the lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJM2fxzewk

doesn't Numan quote PKD and Ballard rather extensively? "Flow my tears the policeman said" etc.

The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - 'The Last Transmission'
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JpkAAOSw78xcXY~O/s-l300.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0017/6685/0633/products/32b93338-5f3a-4c0f-a106-0b8b150d8c33_2048x2048.jpg?v=1538992585

Wow @ that Ursula K. Le Guin album

Forgot to mention Frank Black's brilliant Bradbury tribute "The Cult Of Ray".

Stereo Sanctity by Sonic Youth is basically just random bits of VALIS by Philip K Dick

Sonic Youth also references William Gibson stuff in several songs