Thomas Ligotti
Born 9 Jul 1953
Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is a contemporary American horror writer. His writings have been noted as being rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have overall been described by many critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction is pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction".
Source: Thomas Ligotti on Wikipedia.
Quotes
“What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be.”
The Shadow at The Bottom of The World 2005 , Introduction “Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.”
Teatro Grottesco 2008 “The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe 2015 “Madness, chaos, bone-deep mayhem, devastation of innumerable souls—while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe 2015 “To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.”
The Nightmare of Being, p. 21
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Books by Thomas Ligotti in order
Books by Thomas Ligotti in the order they were published, from Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1990) to Crampton (2023).
- 1Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Songs of a Dead Dreamer1990 - 2Grimscribe
Grimscribe1991 - 3Noctuary
Noctuary1994 - 4The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein
The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein1994 - 5In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign LandIn a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land1997
- 6My Work Is Not yet Done
My Work Is Not yet Done2002 - 7The Shadow at The Bottom of The World
The Shadow at The Bottom of The World2005 - 8La fábrica de pesadillas
La fábrica de pesadillas2007 - 9Teatro Grottesco
Teatro Grottesco2007 - 10The Nightmare Factory
The Nightmare Factory2007 - 11The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race2010 - 12In Heaven, Everything Is Fine
In Heaven, Everything Is Fine2013 - 13The Spectral Link
The Spectral Link2014 - 14Harry O. MorrisHarry O. Morris2015
- 15La conspiración contra la especie humana
La conspiración contra la especie humana2015 - 16Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe2015 - 17La Cospirazione Contro La Razza Umana
La Cospirazione Contro La Razza Umana2016 - 18Nottuario
Nottuario2017 - 19The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Lib/E
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Lib/E2018 - 20Canciones de un soñador muerto
Canciones de un soñador muerto2019 - 21CramptonCrampton2023