By Thomas Ligotti
ISBN-10: 0698409280
ISBN-13: 9780698409286
Two terrifying classics by means of “the most sensible saved mystery in modern horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a lifeless Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, completely inscribed a brand new identify within the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by way of the unusual terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by means of the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews affordable, gory thrills for his personal model of horror, which shocks on the private, existential, levels.
Ligotti’s tales tackle decaying towns and lurid dreamscapes in a method starting from wealthy, decorative prose to chilly, medical detachment. His uncooked and experimental paintings lays naked the unimportance of our international and the sickening insanity of the human . just like the maximum writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends truth until eventually it cracks, starting fissures by which he invitations us to gaze at the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.
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Remember, gentlemen," he wheezed laboriously, "this is no whim of the moment. I first suspected the frightful facts thirty years ago—when a shocking incident made me see that all the work of Freud, with his revealing new psychology of the unconscious, was merely a penetrating description of the minds and behavior of men, not really an explanation of the evil we see. "I was then a practicing psychiatrist, out at Glenn-haven. I gave up my medical career—because the truth I suspected made a mockery of all I had been taught and a cruel sham out of my efforts to aid the mentally ill.
She was a brilliant girl and she must have been beautiful then. " Watching the blind woman again, the girl listened silently. "She went to Mondrick's classes and became an able ethnologist herself," Barbee went on. "She used to go with him on all his expeditions until she lost her sight. Since, for the last twenty years or so, she has lived very quietly here in Clarendon. She has her music, and a few close friends. I don't think she takes any more part in her husband's researches. " "Tell me about it," the girl commanded.
They're the oldest friends I have. We were all freshmen together at the university, while Mondrick still was teaching there. Sam and I boarded two years at Mondrick's house, and afterwards the four of us were all suitemates in Trojan Hall on the campus. We all took Mondrick's courses, and—well— you see—" Barbee stammered, and halted awkwardly. An old pain awakened, throbbing at his throat. "Go on," whispered April Bell, and the quick flash of her sympathetic smile made him resume. "Mondrick was already gathering his disciples, you see.
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