![]() ![]() Ligotti's stories are adapted by writers Stuart Moore and Joe Harris and Ligotti.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. ![]() Ligotti’s stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. ![]() Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. I'd say he might just be a genius.Author by: Thomas Ligotti Language: en Publisher by: Penguin Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 41 Total Download: 659 File Size: 47,8 Mb Description: Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. "Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. "Aficianados of the macabre consider Ligotti one of the finest writers in the field" - The Sunday Times "Ligotti is wonderfully original he has a new vision of a dark and special kind, a vision that no one had before him." - Interzone "The best new American writer of weird fiction to appear in years" - The Washington Post In story after story in this collection, Ligotti does not merely present his readers with isolated incidents of supernatural horror - he challenges them to confront nightmares that are entwined in the very fabric of life itself. The title story, "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," reimagines a kind of Bradbury-like small town that encounters the appearance of a kind of existential darkness, written with a sharp imagery like that of William S. ![]() Many of his stories center on the distorted perspective of a frequently doomed narrator. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing his best and most characteristic works.Thomas Ligotti's stories are perhaps best described as dark magical realism. A longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers. ![]()
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