/lit/ - Literature

The hackneyed phrase says that he's the third most important author in the horror genre, only after Poe and Lovecraft. I don't know if that's true (we'll find out about 30 years after Ligotti's passed away, I suppose.) But fuck, yeah, he's a great writer. He has a handful of mediocre stories, but his good stuff is miles ahead that of anyone else writing horror today.

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti. The former is out of print and can be very expensive. Your best bet is tracking down a copy of "The Nightmare Factory", which is basically an omnibus with a shitload of Ligotti's fiction. The library may have it. Copies online shouldn't be as expensive.

But I don't know about being scared shitless, though. There's some really disturbing stuff in his books (disturbing as in unsettling, not violent), but he's more about distorting your view of the world and make you realize what a pathetic little being you are (and everyone else too for that matter.)

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