Thomas Ligotti Reihenfolge der Bücher

Der Band umfasst herausragende Cthulhu-Mythos-Erzählungen von Autoren wie James Wade, Robert Barbour Johnson und Thomas Ligotti. Herausgegeben von S.T. Joshi, einer führenden Autorität zu H. P. Lovecraft, ist dies der erste von sechs Bänden, die den Einfluss und die Themen Lovecrafts beleuchten.

Debutová sbírka povídek jednoho z největších současných autorů weird fiction, velmistra hororového žánru, spisovatele, který od osmdesátých let minulého století spřádá podivné příběhy, v nichž z nočních můr vystupuje iracionalita existence. Ligottiho svět obývají posedlé postavy všemožných doktorů, umělců, profesorů, psychiatrů a psychopatů, protagonisté žijící v omšelých anonymních městech s pokřivenými domy a ulicemi a pohybující se v těžko postižitelné groteskní sféře, kterou sdílí s figurínami, loutkami a bytostmi, u nichž si nikdo nemůže být jistý, co skrývají pod maskou, nebo celou řadou masek. Jen zde zpoza oken hledí strnulí panáci se šíleným výrazem v očích, kteří vědí své o marnosti lidské existence.

This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Prout's "The House of the Worm" and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wade's novella "The Deep Ones" and Ramsey Campbell's refreshing riff on the "forbidden book" motif, "The Franklyn Paragraphs." Acclaimed stories by T.E.D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, and W.H. Pugmire are also included. The book includes an array of original stories by such leading authors of Lovecraftian fiction as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Donald Tyson, Cody Goodfellow, and Michael Shea. Gemma Files contributes a richly textured novella, while Jonathan Thomas offers a story full of his distinctive melding of horror and satire. A Mountain Walked is chock-full of stories old and new that highlight the endless variations that can be played on H.P. Lovecraft's signature creation. S.T. Joshi is the leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft

Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti crafted his own brand of existential horror, which shocks at the deepest levels. In decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes tormented by the lunatic pageantry of masks, puppets, and obscure ritual, Ligotti's works lay bare the sickening madness of the human condition. From his dark imagination emerge stories like "The Frolic" and "The Last Feast of Harlequin," waking nightmares that splinter the schemes validating our existence. In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness below-an ordeal from which one may perhaps return, but never to be the same

Seit Thomas Ligotti seine erste Erzählung veröffentlichte, sind die Literaturkritiker verblüfft, mit welcher Konsequenz, aber auch mit welch kunstvoller Rhetorik er seine dunklen Albträume inszeniert. Inhalt: Einleitung Das letzte Fest des Harlekin Die Brille im Geheimfach Blumen des Abgrunds Nethescurial Träumen in Nortown Die Mystiker von Mülenburg Im Schatten einer anderen Welt Die Kokons Die Abendschule Der Zauber Die Bibliothek von Byzanz Miss Plarr Der Schatten am Grund der Welt Steven J. Mariconda:'Grimscribe erreicht geradezu Klassiker-Status.' S. T. Joshi: 'Die Novelle ›Das letzte Fest des Harlekin‹ ist vielleicht die beste Hommage an Lovecraft, die je geschrieben wurde.' The Washington Post: 'Thomas Ligotti ist die überraschendste und ungewöhnlichste literarische Entdeckung seit Clive Barker' Amazon. de: 'Ligotti löscht den klaren Sinn. Irrsinn ist sein Thema, aber auch Blickwinkel und Mittler der Darstellung. (.) Ligottis Stil ist eine Mischung zwischen Kafka und Lovecraft.' Grimscribe erscheint in der überarbeiteten, endgültigen Fassung des Autors, wie sie in den USA bei Subterranean Press erschien. Frühere Übersetzungen wurden bearbeitet.

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In the vein of horror legends Poe and Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti's unsettling tales are reimagined in this collection. Four writer/artist teams adapt his most chilling stories, including a surreal carnival sacrifice, a nightmarish psychiatrist-patient bond, a town overshadowed by a sinister asylum, and an urban legend that stifles artistic desire.

"In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work"-- Provided by publisher

Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the Washington Post, the celebrated science fiction and fantasy author Michael Swanwick extolled: “Put this volume on the shelf right between H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. Where it belongs.” The revisions in the present volume of Songs of a Dead Dreamer have been calculated to make its stories into enhanced incarnations of the originals. This edition is and will remain definitive. For those already familiar with the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer, an invitation is extended to return to them in their ultimate state. For those new to the collection, it is submitted to engage them with some of the most extraordinary tales of their kind. In either case, this publication of Songs of a Dead Dreamer offers evidence for why Ligotti has been judged to be among the most important authors in the history of supernatural horror.