How would you describe Thomas Ligotti's fiction? How does

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It's much bleaker and to some extent more abstract than most horror I've read. It seems he started writing somewhat "standard" weird fiction mingled with his antinatalist philosophy, but as the years have gone by he's gotten a lot looser with writing easily comprehensible plots which is noticeable in stories like The Red Tower and In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land. They seem to exist in their own reality or nightmare-logic where the characters are not particularly surprised to encounter bizarre and unexplainable phenomena. Have you read any of his work or are you asking here to see if it's up your alley?

also that photo is of Jean Cocteau, not Ligotti.

>>9165159

I've been a fan of his since I came across a collection of his stories adapted into comic style (The Nightmare Factory, which got a second volume recently). This inspired me to find his unadapted work and I fell in love. Even managed to find a first edition of the original Nightmare Factory at Half Price Books for five dollars (it's worth up to one hundred). There's just something about his work that makes me continually come back, and that lingers more than other horror writers in an ineffable way. I think you said it best with the stories operating under nightmare logic, though.

>also that photo is of Jean Cocteau, not Ligotti.

Good looking out. I just went with whatever came up first when I googled his name.

>>9165206
That photo is somewhat infamous, amusingly enough. I'm not sure how the confusion started but it got to the point where a foreign publisher even used that photo in a translated volume of his stories.

Are you familiar with Robert Aickman at all? Apparently Ligotti doesn't like being compared to him, but as far as I'm concerned, they're equals when it comes to conveying that unmatched sense of "otherness" that remains with the reader. They're two of the only authors I've read whose phrases will repeatedly come to mind months after I've read them.

>>9165241

>Robert Aickman

I'll have to check him out. Thanks for the recommendation!