/lit/ - Literature

>>19190116
>>19190202
Keep in mind Ligotti has suffered from several debilitating mental and physical disorders all his life, the second of which has come close to killing him a few times
>>19194020
Same excuse every pessimist gives, he doesn't do it because his mom and brother would be sad. In one of the last stories he's written he's pretty much begging to be euthanized also

I think I finally warmed up to this nigga.

Can we get a thread on Ligotti? Favorite works? Any idea of what it's supposed to mean besides crushing nihilism and clowns?

>>11437269
it's a Ligotti thing

>Read Conspiracy against the human race
>Nihilism
>Sounds like me in high school before zoloft
>Put the book down and realize that if I enjoy my life and maintain a social circle that appreciates my presence and contributions


Why doesn't Thomas take medication?

>>5976159
Thank fucking God.

Let's talk some Ligotti, /lit/. Specifically, let's talk about Ligotti's mythos.

His stories 'Nethescurial', 'Teatro Grottesco', and 'The Shadow, the Darkness' all seem to hint at the same entity which controls all living things from within: Nethescurial in 'Nethescurial', the Teatro Grottesco in 'Teatro', and the Tsalal in 'The Shadow'. All of these titles are evidently synonymous (we learn towards the end of 'Teatro' that the Teatro Grottesco at one point operated under the name of Nethescurial).

It seems to me that most if not all of his stories take place near a northern border between one unnamed country and another unnamed country which is basically under the control of the Quine Organization. The locales are all largely similar: grey, dilapidated towns full of artistic and intellectual failures, as well as eccentrics and occultists.

Do you think Ligotti's mythos takes place in our reality or another world entirely? Do you think his vision of the northern country blanketed in fog and governed by the Quine Organization is a grim premonition of what's to come?

Discuss.

Guess who's got a new book out

Can't wait for a PDF

Any reason you have for not comitting suicide is nothing but an instinct for survival that you've rationalized to feel better about yourself.

Comitting suicide in this world makes perfect sense.