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Thomas Ligotti

(Thomas Robert Ligotti)

(1953 - )

About Thomas Ligotti

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".

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Teatro Grottesco

Anthologies containing stories by Thomas Ligotti

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

Short stories

	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 (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 (1996)
	The Bells Will Sound Forever (1997)
	The Shadow, The Darkness (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	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

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1991) : The Last Feast of Harlequin
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1992) : Grimscribe: His Life and Works
	Bram Stoker Best Short story nominee (1996) : The Bungalow House
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1997) : The Nightmare Factory
	Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (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."

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