Thomas Ligotti

>>9778023
Autism.

>>9778023
He's really good unless he goes into "clowns and puppets are sooo scary" mode.

>>9778134

Just so, Last Feast of the Harlequin is fucking amazing.

>>9778023
duno why but this is my fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fteka44kbY

>>9778134
you just casually shat on literally the best story in that ENTIRE collection

>>9778272

My droog. Bungalow House is my absolute favorite, even if you can see the ending coming from a mile away. The entire thing is so damned creepy, and the 'meeting' in the library. So damn good. And even better when read aloud! I plan on rectifying the dirth of Ligotti on YouTube as soon as I can afford a microphone.

>>9778134

The way he uses clowns genuinely unnerves me.

>>9778134
But they are the things of nightmares, anon.

Because he knows his limits - horror, short stories - and works within them. (genre, length) He avoids going beyond his capacity as a writer (which is very high, granted) and as such his perfection can only be labelled somewhat contrived since he hasn't attempted a novel or something less genrey. This isn't a reproach - Borges was very much the same.

That said, I consider him the greatest living prose stylist in English.

>>9778546
Download the Current 93 stuff - the Unholy City, I have a Special Plan, Foreign Land, etc. Great stuff.

Have you read "Gas station carnivals" from Teatro Grottesco? I think it's his best story.

>>9778023
because you want to kill people, monsieur. you're a dangerous man. this road you're going down leads to a very dark place. the lord watches over you my child. you will find rest at the end of your days if you do but toil IN HIS NAME

>>9778343
Nah, not even among the best five.

>>9778023
this cover is fucking hideous, literally worse than any wordsworth cover

>>9782769

Aw. I actually quite like it. Fits with his cruel absurdity thing.

>>9781938
list em bitch

Reading Ligotti has revolutionized my idea of horror - first with this collection, pushing the Lovecraftian theme of humanity's precarious existence on the filmsy stage of emptiness to the most beautiful, splatterpunk-ish heights, then with Teatro grottesco and its saga about the alien quality of humanity, its faceless brutality sublimed in bureacracy.

I don't know if it's the right place to ask, but I'm writing a short story for a competition in my home country, about my hometown and I've chosen to write a horror story from the point of view of a nocturnal, autistic erudite, chasing the phantasmatic root of evil he perceives in the chtonian bowels of his homeland. Any stories, essays or novels to read on this theme, beyond the usually mentioned?

Awful purple prose. Should learn from the likes of Robert Aickman how to do horror right.

>>9783800

The King in Yellow is probably the most disquieting thing I've ever read in my life.

Does anyone know if Dax Riggs was inspired by Ligotti for his lyrics? There are way too many similarities for it to be a coincidence but I can't find anything concrete

>>9778023
How can one man be so debased?

The story about the mannequins scared me out like no other horror story has, except perhaps rats in the wall.
Any other horror anthology/collection that's worth getting?

>>9780775
>Borges wrote genre fiction

Yes I am mad

>>9782769
>a horror book cover should be pleasing to look at

>>9784735
Calm down, it's obvious I didn't mean that Borges wrote genre fiction, but that he never wrote a novel, and played within the short story form instead. But on the question of genre fiction, Borges also played a lot with that too, subverting and recreating some of the conventions of the genre; adventure, detective, mystery, and the like, for example.

>>9785355
its already too late for me to calm down, I am fuming at this point. I am coming for you and I will find you because I am a man with a very particular set of skills.

>>9785364
OK, Liam, come on over, I'll get the tea wet.

>>9778023
Because ur a child

>>9784735
Borges indeed wrote genre fiction. See his collabs with Adolfo Bioy Casares.

>>9785364
you havent been good in dick all since schindlers list altho lego movie good too

>>9780775
You know he wrote a nonfiction book that he is as well known for now as his horror stories, right? His work on pessimism is the counter weight that keeps his horror revolving.

>>9786263
Right. So one recent non-fiction work and a whole slew of horror short stories. I doubt he's as well known for Conspiracy as for the rest though.

Having said that, I very much enjoy the Dark Beauty of Unknown Horrors, the very first piece I ever read by him in a HPL tribute volume many moons ago. It read more like an essay than a short story. In fact, come to think of it, it probably is an essay masquerading as a short story, as are his other stories, to a certain extent.

>>9786272

Conspiracy is what Pizzolatto was most 'inspired' by for True Detective.

>>9786310
I don't have or watch TV, sorry.
>figure of speech: I'm not at all sorry/

>>9783766
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss
The Chymist
Labyrinthine Eyes
Flowers of the Abyss
Fleurs

Your turn. Cunt.

Finally pulled the trigger on Teatro Grottesco. Now I've got that and a first printing of Nightmare Factory.

Really looking forward to reading Gas Station Carnivals.

>>9786520

My top five are

Teatro Grottesco
Dr. Locrian's Asylum
Jaunt
Last Festival of the Harlequin
Bungalow House

>>9786949
I thought we were talking about that particular collection.

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Any of you antinatalists have Benatar books as epubs?

>>9787141
Is Pat Benatar a writer now too?

>>9787162
David.

>>9787162
I was going to say "when wasn't she?"
upon further research I've found out that most of her hits were written for her. She probably writes the filler material

>>9787064

I'm a rebel man. I don't have to play by your rules man. Stop narcing on my good time man.

>>9783810

Recommend something by this Aick...man.

>>9783800
Eugene Thacker

Best collections of this guy?

>>9778023
I read the book but found it really underwhelming. May be because I wasn't a big fan of horror fiction to begin with.