![]() ![]() Pick up Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Noctuary, and Teatro Grotesco for some truly next generation horror.īasically, Thomas Ligotti’s horror fiction differs from anything else you’ve read because he places his philosophy front and center in these stories. Where Lovecraft’s stories would end with the protagonists killed or driven mad by eldritch horrors, Ligotti’s stories were more likely to end with those protagonists actually joining forces with the darkness. Where Lovecraft dealt with the horrors of the unknowable, Ligotti deals more with the horrors of pointlessness. Lovecraft (yeah, the Cthulhu guy), but that’s not really accurate. Thomas Ligotti himself has been called a successor to H.P. But the big question that potential new readers will likely have when reading those reviews is “Who the hell is Thomas Ligotti?” ![]() A lot of the reviews of this collection compare Jon Padgett to Thomas Ligotti, which is fair, since Jon Padgett has been the long-time moderator of the Thomas Ligotti fansite,, and one of the stories takes its title directly from a Ligotti story. ![]()
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