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	Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories.
		Ligotti generally avoids the explicit violence common in some recent horror fiction, preferring to establish an intensely disquieting, pessimistic atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition.
		Thomas Ligotti's introduction clocks in at 3,500 words and concerns the affirmative themes of world-renowned authors, focusing on Luigi Pirandello, with the negationist themes of Roland Topor's The Tenant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Ligotti (947 words)

	Dark Moon Rising - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the aforementioned work, Thomas Ligotti propagates the idea of an omnipresent ultra-cynicism in a world whose omnipresent cynicism has grown (or perhaps was primordially innate) to ultra proportions.
		Albeit this story is much the same as the rest of Ligotti’s fiction insofar as it shares a common denominator: a special flness that obscures and dominates; a yawning abyss that lies beneath the skin of the world, sending its shadow appendages to manipulate us as it sees fit (comparable to Erebos in Greek Mythology).
		Thomas Ligotti is to horror fiction what Glenn Danzig is to heavy music: A bastion of authenticity, a prototype for posterity.
	www.darkmoonrising.com /reviews?file=worknotyetdone (508 words)

	Thomas Ligotti My Work Is Not Yet Done Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Thomas Ligotti is known as a writer of grotesque, gothic horror, rather abstract and trending towards literary.
		Ligotti nails the combination of rage and terror that so many trapped in unpleasant and unfulfilling jobs experience on a daily basis.
		Ligotti is equally at home humorously describing the quirks of being trapped in corporate capitalism or in the fleshy tombs that carry our blighted souls.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/ligotti-my_work_not_done.htm (759 words)

	Ligotti In Triplicate
		Ligotti has long worked for Gale Research Company in Detroit (the volume is dedicated to a coworker, Marie Lazzari), and he has drawn upon his corporate experiences with great panache in these three tales.
		I certainly welcome Ligotti’s expansion of his fictional palette in the direction of the novel, although I share with him a grave doubt as to the aesthetic feasibility of the “horror novel” as conventionally written.
		Ligotti rightly maintains that such a work, except in the hands of a master, tends to lapse into merely a mystery or suspense narrative with horrific interludes—an indictment that could, regrettably, apply to nearly all the “horror novels” written over the past thirty years.
	www.lsu.edu /necrofile/mywork.html (1000 words)

	Thomas Ligotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Ligotti is, without doubt, for me the most extraordinary living writer.
		From the banal terrors of "The Frolic", where that which must be most feared by a family occurs in an ecstasy of nihilist ritual; to the grotesque resignation of "Mrs.
		Ligotti has written four main collections: Songs Of A Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Noctuary and The Agonising Resurrection Of Doctor Frankenstein.
	www.brainwashed.com /c93/ligotti.html (421 words)

	Amazon.com: Grimscribe: His Lives and Works: Books: Thomas Ligotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ligotti (Songs of a Dead Dreamer, 1990) writes out of what seems an all-embracing depression, making him willing to go into wipeout areas time and again and ask a lot both of himself and his readers.
		The truth is that Thomas Ligotti has come out of seemingly nowhere in just the last ten years and has, in that time, set a new standard in literature of the supernatural.
		Ligotti is not only as good as the nineteenth and twentieth century masters of the macabre.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0881847399?v=glance (1494 words)

	THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE -
		Thomas Ligotti was born on July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan.
		Ligotti in the Spring of 1998, he explained that Lovecraft's fiction had had the most profound influence on his life rather than his fiction, as reading HPL's work was the impetus for Ligotti's writing career.
		Thomas Ligotti has directly collaborated with C93 on at least two projects: the 1997 release, In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land, and the upcoming CD, I Have a Special Plan for this World.
	www.ligotti.net /faq.php?mode=ligotti (1854 words)

	Burning Void--Reviews: "Songs of a Dead Dreamer," Thomas Ligotti
		Ligotti writes a sort of text-poetry, a magic of words and images, shadows and light, madness and clarity.
		Ligotti has a relatively small but very dedicated fan base; there aren't all that many books of his stories out there, and they can be difficult to find.
		Ligotti has a very definite style, and once you come to know it, it's difficult to not recognize it.
	www.burningvoid.com /review/2000/songsofadeaddreamerligotti.php (560 words)

	Thomas Ligotti Grimscribe: His Lives and Works Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Unlike most of today's horror writers, who use a more anatomical approach, Ligotti consciously and successfully raises his perceptions of death and decay to the plane of the abstract and the academic, shrouding them in a delicious, dank, elegant prose.
		In keeping with the elevated tone of the prose, the plots of the stories in "Grimscribe" tend towards the understated and anecdotal, but Ligotti's talent for a turn of the phrase ensures that they're as engrossing as they are elegiac.
		Ligotti's greatest strength as a horror writer is in what he chooses to show the reader.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/ligotti-grimscribe.htm (419 words)

	Dark Moon Rising - June 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Ligotti, through bleak, nihilistic, and transmogrified prose, evokes that special dark aesthetic something that others can’t or don’t.
		Ligotti is unyielding to the human necessity to explain every motive and every piece of mysteria and leaves the reader with a terrible/wonderful disquiet.
		In sum, if Thomas Ligotti wants to be reputed as the king of horror, than I suppose we must conclude that he has to change his last name to something that begins with a K, and spew tired potboilers - set in Maine - about vampires until there’s no end to the infinite sucking!
	www.darkmoonrising.com /issues/jun02?FILE=grimscribes (2335 words)

	THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE - Home
		THE TENANT by Roland Topor with Introduction by Ligotti
		A new presentation of THE TENANT by Roland Topor is to be released in October.
		Thomas Ligotti wrote: › It is the old surfaces that must be stripped away and be disposed of.
	www.ligotti.net (750 words)

	Blogcritics.org: The Nightmare Factory - by Thomas Ligotti
		Ligotti knows about consolations; following Brite's foreword is "The Consolations of Horror," an essay he wrote for this anthology, a veritable manifesto expressing his own views on horror.
		Ligotti is unafraid to be visceral, such as when he describes "a mutilated carcass, something of terrible rawness, a torn and flayed thing whose every laceration could be traced in crystalline sharpness" in "The Spectacles in the Drawer," but he isn't out to disgust you for its own sake.
		Ligotti is efficient; some stories are better than others, but every single one is a superior example of literate horror, resulting in a consistently excellent anthology.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/03/01/130330.php (959 words)

	Amazon.com: Noctuary: Books: Thomas Ligotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ligotti's (Grimscribe) clever title suggests the marriage of "nocturne" and "mortuary," an appropriate preparation for this dark grouping of tales.
		Simply put, Ligotti's "Noctuary" is a collection of weird tales that, while they have some interesting story kernels, wind up as overwritten, overwrought samples of what's wrong these days with "literary horror." Ligotti tries so hard to out-Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft, he gets stuck in webs of thickly laid modifiers, clunky sentences, and Liberace-style extravagance.
		Thomas Ligotti is one of the most original and unsettling horror writers of this day and age, only somewhat rivalled by his predecessors, Poe and Lovecraft.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786702354?v=glance (1904 words)

	The Shadow at The Bottom of The World by Thomas Ligotti (Trade Paperback)
		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.
		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.
	www.clarkesworldbooks.com /book_1593600585.html (210 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Noctuary: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Ligotti's third collection of stories, though his weakest publication to date, still contains a number of exquisitely-wrought pieces stamped with his inimitable hallmark.
		Ligotti it seems strives in his tales not so much to horrify, nor frighten, nor revolt, rather to demand recognition of the ruinous and malign locales he delineates, and concordance with the negative, fatalistic philosophy his creations espouse or epitomise.
		In his ambitious pursuit of the singularly odd, Ligotti not surprisingly falls short of the mark from time to time, and this volume contains a few lacklustre pieces: the fragmentary 'Notebook of the Night' in particular.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1854872338 (357 words)

	Supernatural Fiction Database, Thomas Ligotti
		Thomas Ligotti was born in 1953, a second-generation American of predominately Sicilian heritage.
		Ligotti found employment at the Literary Criticism Division of Gale Research Company (now Thomson Gale) in 1979.
		Ligotti left his job of twenty-three years during 2001 and subsequently began working as a freelance writer and editor.
	freepages.pavilion.net /tartarus/l30.htm (693 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing
		Thomas Ligotti is North America’s pre-eminent writer of weird horror fiction.
		Thomas Ligotti: I can’t think of any post-World War II writers in the horror genre that fit that description.
		Thomas Ligotti: I can’t think of a case of an author being retroactively demoted to the genre of horror.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /show.html?iw,ligotti,1 (759 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing
		Thomas Ligotti: No. A couple years ago, I tried to imagine how I could replicate in language the effect of certain music.
		Thomas Ligotti: The online Merriam-Webster dictionary makes it easier to look up words that I want to spell correctly.
		Thomas Ligotti: It doesn’t take long to read what’s been written about my horror stories, and indeed I’ve read it.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/ligotti/6 (895 words)

	The Thomas Ligotti Reader by Darrell Schweitzer (ed.) (Trade Paperback)
		Ever since the first edition of Thomas Ligotti's 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer' appeared in 1985, it was clear that here was an author of extraordinary brilliance and originality.
		With a complete, up-to-date bibliography of Ligotti's work, two interviews with him, and even a fascinating essay by Ligotti himself.
		The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: A Study of 'In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land' by Ben P. Indick
	www.clarkesworld.com /books/book_1592241301.html (273 words)

	Alibris: Thomas Ligotti
		Ramsey Campbell called `Songs of a Dead Dreamer' `one of the most important horror books of the decade.' The eerie and exquisite works that followed, `Grimscribe', and `Noctuary,' established Ligotti among the connoisseurs of the macabre in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft.
		Includes contributions from all the Weird Tales regulars: Tanith Lee, Ian Watson, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, and many more.
		Includes contributions from Thomas Ligotti, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Morgan Llywelyn, William F. Nolan, Joe Lansdale, Keith Roberts, Tanith Lee, Chet Williamson, and many, many more.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Thomas_Ligotti (420 words)

	The Necropolitan Press / Jeffrey Thomas Web Page
		Founded in 1993 by Publisher/Editor JEFFREY THOMAS, NECROPOLITAN PRESS is an independent publisher in the genres of HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, DARK FANTASY,and the Unclassifiable.
		Eliot said, "The end is where we start from." This is true of Necropolitan Press.
		A collection of short stories by Scott Thomas (THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES, DEATHREALM, TERMINAL FRIGHT, LORE, and the Delirium Books hardcover collection of his stories COBWEBS AND WHISPERS) with a theme of erotic horror.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Quadrant/5830/Necropolitan1.html (870 words)

	SciFan: Books: Nightmare Factory, The by Thomas Ligotti (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
		SciFan: Books: Nightmare Factory, The by Thomas Ligotti (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		Thomas Ligotti, in his own words, writes of "a world that both surpasses and menaces this one." He is the contemporary master of the "weird tale," and yet his style is so intellectually intriguing, he has as much in common with Borges and Kafka as with Lovecraft and Machen.
		If you haven't discovered Ligotti yet, this edition is a great opportunity to do so: it collects all 39 stories from previous collections, plus 6 new ones--also, a forward by Poppy Z. Brite, and an introduction by Ligotti on "What are the consolations of horror?"
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=23840 (205 words)

	My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti (Hardcover)
		My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti (Hardcover)
		Signed on a bookplate by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris (artist).
		Contains the stories "I Have A Special Plan For This World" and "The Nightmare Network" and the previously unpublished novella "My Work Is Not Yet Done".
	www.clarkesworld.com /books/book_0965943372.html (57 words)

	CTHULHU 2000: A LOVECRAFTIAN ANTHOLOGY by Turner, Jim (editor) [Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Gene Wolfe, F. Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CTHULHU 2000: A LOVECRAFTIAN ANTHOLOGY by Turner, Jim (editor) [Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Gene Wolfe, F. Paul Wilson, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, James P. Blaylock, T. Klein, Bruce Sterling, Gahan Wilson, Joanna Russ, Roger Zelazny, Kim Newman, Michael Shea, et al] at Biblio
		Turner, Jim (editor) [Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Gene Wolfe, F. Paul Wilson, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, James P. Blaylock, T. Klein, Bruce Sterling, Gahan Wilson, Joanna Russ, Roger Zelazny, Kim Newman, Michael Shea, et al]: CTHULHU 2000: A LOVECRAFTIAN ANTHOLOGY
		Great Dust Wrapper artwork by Bob Eggleton [who also provided the interior illustrations].
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/255872.html (1047 words)

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	the other change of hobbit science fiction & fantasy bookstore: forthcoming releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer: Rise of the Death Dealer.
		The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas M. Trade paperback.
		Long Spoon Lane: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel.
	www.otherchangeofhobbit.com /forth.html (1471 words)

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		Darrell Schweitzer (Wildside Press 1-59224-130-1, May 2003, $19.95, 188pp, tp, cover by Jason Van Hollander); Non-fiction collection of 11 articles on Ligotti (seven original), two interviews, an article on horror writing by Ligotti himself, and a bibliography of Ligotti’s works by Douglas A. Anderson.
		116 • The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: a Study of In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land • Ben P. Indick • ar * [Thomas Ligotti]
		154 • A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography • Douglas Anderson • bi * [Thomas Ligotti]
	www.locusmag.com /index/yr2003/t18.htm (4331 words)

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