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Thomas Ligotti

(Thomas Robert Ligotti)

(b.1953)

Thomas Ligotti is a writer of horror stories. Something of a cult figure, Ligotti is rather little known, but has seen high praise as one of the most effective and unique horror writers of recent decades: The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction".

Genres: Horror

Collections

   The Nightmare Factory (1984)
   In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land (1985)
   Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1989)
   Grimscribe (1991)
   Noctuary (1994)
   The Agonising Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein (1994)
   My Work Is Not Yet Done (2002)
   The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
   Sideshow and Other Stories (2003)
   The Shadow at The Bottom of The World (2005)
   The Evil Entwines, Extended version (2005) (with John B Ford and F Paul Wilson)
   Teatro Grottesco (2007)
   The Nightmare Factory 2 (2009)
   Death Poems (poems) (2013)
   The Spectral Link (2014)
   Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (2015)
   A Little White Book of Screams and Whispers (2021)

Plays

Crampton (2002) (with Brandon Trenz)

Non fiction

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010)
Born to Fear (2014) (with Matt Cardin)

Anthologies containing stories by Thomas Ligotti

Heroic Visions II (1986)
Prime Evil (1988)
Fine Frights (1988)
Best New Horror (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
A Whisper of Blood (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
Best New Horror 4 (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Visions of Fear (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
The Best New Horror 5 (1995)
Cthulhu 2000 (1995)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Darkside (1996)
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight (1997)
Eternal Lovecraft (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
999 (1999)

Short stories

	Autumnal
	The Career of Nightmares
	Conversations in a Dead Language
	Death without End
	The Demon Man
	The Eternal Marriage
	The Interminable Equation
	Invocation to the Void
	Mad Night of Atonement
	The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets
	The Mocking Mystery
	Mr Rinaldi's Angel
	The Nameless Horror
	New Faces in the City
	One May be Dreaming
	The Order of Illusion
	The Physic
	Primordial Loathing
	The Prodigy of Dreams
	The Puppet Masters
	Salvation by Doom
	The Spectral Estate
	The Unfamiliar
	The Voice in the Bones
	The Chymist (1981)
	Les Fleurs (1981)
	Dream of a Mannikin (1982)
	Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes (1982)
	The Frolic (1982)
	The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise (1983)
	Dr Voke and Mr Veech (1983)
	Eye of the Lynx (1983)
	The Greater Festival of Masks (1985)
	The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God (1985)
	Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story (1985)
	The Lost Art of Twilight (1986)
	Masquerade of a Dead Sword (1986)
	Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror (1986)
	The Troubles of Dr Thoss (1986)
	Dr Locrian's Asylum (1987)
	The Journal of J. P. Drapeau (1987)
	The Music of the Moon (1987)
	The Spectacles in the Drawer (1987)
	Vastarien (1987)
	Alice's Last Adventure (1988)
	The Sect of the Idiot (1988)
	The Strange Design of Master Rignolo (1989)
	The Last Feast of Harlequin (1990)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Shadow at the Bottom of the World [short story] (1990)
	The Glamour (1991)
	The Medusa (1991)
	Mrs Rinaldi's Angel (1991)
	The Tsalal (1994)
	The Bungalow House (1995)		Bram Stoker (nominee)
	Gas Station Carnivals (1996)
	The Nightmare Network (1996)
	Teatro Grottesco [short story] (1996)
	The Bells Will Sound Forever (1997)
	The Shadow, The Darkness (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1991) : The Last Feast of Harlequin
	Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (1996) : The Bungalow House
	Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1997) : The Nightmare Factory
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1997) : The Nightmare Factory
	British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : The Shadow, The Darkness

Thomas Ligotti recommends

The Void (2002)
Teri A Jacobs
"In The Void Teri A. Jacobs ambitiously and relentlessly pursues a darkness beyond darkness."

The Tyrant (2003)
Michael Cisco
"Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece."

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