By Thomas Ligotti
ISBN-10: 1596064099
ISBN-13: 9781596064096
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second one quantity in a sequence of revised, definitive versions of the horror tale collections of Thomas Ligotti. First released in 1991 by means of Carroll & Graf within the usa and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered considerably extra reputation than Ligotti's first assortment, Songs of a lifeless Dreamer, which was once issued years past through an analogous publishers.
In the view of many commentators, it was once with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his popularity as a horror author of excessive stature. As Steven J. Mariconda remarked in a 1992 essay surveying the tales in Songs of a lifeless Dreamer and Grimscribe: "Of the 2 collections, Grimscribe achieves near-classic prestige and is usually recommended to all." integrated during this quantity is "The final banquet of Harlequin," a novella that, within the statement of H. P. Lovecraft pupil and biographer S. T. Joshi, "may possibly be the superior homage to Lovecraft ever written."
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