Thomas Ligotti, Author . Mythos $30 (200p) ISBN 978-0-9659433-7-6
The bureaucracy of the modern office and the dehumanization of workplace drones are fodder for surreal black comedy in this triptych of tales from horror master Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory). Each of the selections resonates with echoes of Kafka...
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Thomas Ligotti, Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $25 (256p) ISBN 9781982429693
Ligotti (Songs of a Dead Dreamer), one of his generation's most original writers of horror fiction, explores the theme of philosophic pessimism in his first book of nonfiction. Citing the work of a formidable array of thinkers that includes...
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Thomas Ligotti, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $0 (214p) ISBN 978-0-88184-739-0
The eponymous first-person narrator of this chilling collection assumes many different guises in spinning his eerie tales, but the voice in each of the 12 stories remains the same, a voice ``always speaking of terrible secrets.'' Witness,...
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Thomas Ligotti, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0003-5
Ligotti's ( Grimscribe ) clever title suggests the marriage of ``nocturne'' and ``mortuary,'' an appropriate preparation for this dark grouping of tales. In the foreword, the author explains that they fall in the category of ``weird fiction,'' that...
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Thomas Ligotti. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-650-2
The dark poet of “redemptive demoralization” (or depression) returns with two surreal novelettes collected in an elegant, slender volume. Ligotti (The Conspiracy Against the Human Race) continues exploring his fascination with the primal question of
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