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Post by smogquixote on Nov 17, 2021 12:15:35 GMT
Any fans of Mr. Ligotti out there? I’ve been really into his short stories recently after seeing how much he “inspired” the character of Rust Cohle in True Detective
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 17, 2021 13:16:44 GMT
Not a writer I have ever read Smog Wikipedia sez...
Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is a contemporary American horror writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by 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."What would you recommend?
One review on GoodReads of Teatro Grottesco sez...
Ligotti is usually classified as a "horror" writer, but this label is much too limiting. Ligotti embodies the eccentricity and loneliness of Poe (minus the romantic sentimentality), the bleak existential inner landscape of Kafka, the lunatic small-town atmosphere of Bruno Schulz and the mordant epigrammatic nihilism of Cioran.
Ligotti is a profoundly disturbing writer, an unclassifiable talent right up there with such unique voices as Borges, Calvino and Lem.
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Post by doug61 on Nov 18, 2021 16:59:28 GMT
Yep, got most of his stuff. Teatro Grottesco is a great collection.Got into him through the connection and recommendations of David Tibet who has worked with him on occasions. Really falls into that old fashioned field of "The Uncanny" that was strong around 1900. Very unsettling tales.
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Post by smogquixote on Dec 11, 2021 18:45:04 GMT
Yep, got most of his stuff. Teatro Grottesco is a great collection.Got into him through the connection and recommendations of David Tibet who has worked with him on occasions. Really falls into that old fashioned field of "The Uncanny" that was strong around 1900. Very unsettling tales. What has Tibet worked with him on? |
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Post by doug61 on Dec 12, 2021 13:47:00 GMT
Yep, got most of his stuff. Teatro Grottesco is a great collection.Got into him through the connection and recommendations of David Tibet who has worked with him on occasions. Really falls into that old fashioned field of "The Uncanny" that was strong around 1900. Very unsettling tales. What has Tibet worked with him on? Done a few bits and pieces, they are friends. Tibet's publishing company have issued some Ligotti stuff I think in compilations, Tibet also reissues classic Ghost/Horror material from the late 18th, early nineteenth Century. |
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