Thomas Ligotti (8 books) [epub/mobi/azw3]

My Work Is Not Yet Done: 3 Tales Of Corporate Horror

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable - but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done.

Destined to be a cult classic, this tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

Teatro Grottesco

This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of Thomas Ligotti.

Grimscribe: His Lives And Work

Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlement, nurse Hester Jones targets the defense attorney's daughter, hematologist Liz Broward. By the author of Blood Work.

The voice of the damned : The last feast of Harlequin --
The spectacles in the drawer --
flowers of the abyss --
Nethescurial --
The voice of the demon : The dreaming in Nortown --
The mystics of Muelenburg --
In the shadow of another world --
The cocoons --
The voice of the dreamer : The night School --
The glamour --
The voice of our name : The library of Byzantium --
Miss Plarr --
The voice of our name : the shadow at the bottom of the world.

The Collected Short Fiction

The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales

The majority of the pieces in The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, and Other Gothic Tales feature characters and storylines that have previously made appearances, sometimes many times over, throughout the history of supernatural horror. This is not unusual. Like cannibals or vampires, authors have fed off the flesh and blood of one another’s creations in various ways. Even if the intent is not monstrous or malign in the manner of the aforementioned beings, this practice is as old as literature itself.

In the early 1980s, Thomas Ligotti began exercising his auctorial right to revive familiar figures from the ancient literary line. Naturally, those he selected belonged to the lineage of his chosen genre, that is, horror fiction. Among them were the physical freaks fashioned by mad scientists, including those in H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau and the distinguished man of parts known only as Frankenstein’s monster. As is commonly the case with horror writers, Ligotti displays a tendency to sympathize with the miscreations that emerged from Moreau’s and Frankenstein’s laboratories rather than with their creators. Nevertheless, as an artist of horror, he was also bound to the signal emotion of his genre. The solution to these this seeming conflict was to depict the dreadfulness of the misguided efforts of the fictional scientists—who, after all, were pitifully mad—and to make the awful fates of all concerned more awful still.

One critic described the Ligotti’s revisionary designs in The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein as amounting to “an apotheosis of pain.” Seemingly this was the case, even though others regarded the book as no more than a playful diversion. If the endings of the originals were quite terrible, those of these new tellings attempt renderings that are even more terrible. As with the physical horrors of the section titled “Three Scientists,” whom Ligotti gave an extra turn on the rack, those of such metaphysical aberrations as Dracula, the Wolf Man, sundry malicious revenants, and other-dimensional critters and phantasms as devised by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft also became the source of nightmares with as much pain and tragedy as the present writer could put into them.

In addition to the deranged or diabolical actors in stories well-known to seekers after horror, Ligotti has provided newly fabricated accounts to express a greater variety of pain. Much in the style of the older agonies, these take the reader into realms of pathos that may also be found elsewhere in his published work of the same period.

As an addendum, it should be said this edition The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, and Other Gothic Tales contains the revised and definitive incarnations of earlier versions of these works as they appeared in Fantasy Macabre, Grimoire, and other little magazines of horror, the Silver Scarab edition of Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1985), and the 1994 Silver Salamander collection of the same name.

The Nightmare Factory (1996)

In the realm of the supernatural, Thomas Ligotti is the master of stylish, eerie writing of the highest quality. This new edition brings together his collected short stories with 'Teatro Grottesco', a sequence of new stories not published before.

Contents:
The Frolic (1982)
Les Fleurs (1981)
Alice's Last Adventure (1985)
Dream of a Mannikin (1982)
The Chymist (1981)
Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes (1982)
Eye of the Lynx (1983)
The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise (1996)
The Lost Art of Twilight (1986)
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss (1985)
Masquerade of a Dead Sword (1986)
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech (1983)
Dr. Locrian's Asylum (1987)
The Sect of the Idiot (1988)
The Greater Festival of Masks (1985)
The Music of the Moon (1987)
The Journal of J. P. Drapeau (1987)
Vastarien (1987)
The Last Feast of Harlequin (1990)
The Spectacles in the Drawer (1987)
Flowers of the Abyss (1991)
Nethescurial (1991)
The Dreaming in Nortown (1991)
The Mystics of Muelenburg (1987)
In the Shadow of Another World (1991)
The Cocoons (1991)
The Night School (1991)
The Glamour (1991)
The Library of Byzantium (1991)
Miss Plarr (1991)
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World (1990)
The Medusa (1991)
Conversations in a Dead Language (1989)
The Prodigy of Dreams (1986)
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel (1991)
The Tsalal (1994)
Mad Night of Atonement (1989)
The Strange Design of Master Rignolo (1989)
The Voice in the Bones (1989)
Teatro Grottesco (1996)
Severini (1996)
Gas Station Carnivals (1996)
The Bungalow House (1995)
The Clown Puppet (1996)
The Red Tower (1996)

The Conspiracy Against Human Race (Non-fiction)

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to the intellectual blackmail that would oblige us to be eternally grateful for a 'gift' we never invited."
--From the Foreword by Ray Brassier

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti's first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti's calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition. Those who cannot bear the truth will pretend this is another work of fiction, but in doing so they perpetuate the conspiracy of the book's title."
--David Benatar, author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence; Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas Ligotti is one of the foremost authors of supernatural horror literature. In this genre, he has been classed with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. His works include Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, and Teatro Grottesco. Ligotti lives in Florida.

Ray Brassier is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Palgrave Macmillan 2007).

Noctuary

This collection of horror stories, many previously unpublished, includes "The Medusa," "Conversations in a Dead Language," and "Mad Night of Atonement." By the author of Grimscribe.