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A masterpiece of cryptic dread and dementia., Oct. 5 1998
Here's the biggest compliment I can pay Thomas Ligotti: he writes as though he were completely unaware of any other horror fiction written in his lifetime. There is not a major horror writer today whose work even vaguely resembles Ligotti's. I've heard him compared to Poe and Lovecraft but even these comparisons are misleading. His prose and imagery are far more akin to those of Bruno Schulz, the great Polish fantasist who wrote "Street of Crocodiles." These stories spill over with chilling images, irrational "plots," and a sense of dread that feels less like fiction than it does the kinds of horrible dreams we have while suffering a high fever. If you don't recognize that as high praise, you probably shouldn't read this book. But I love it."Songs of a Dead Dreamer" is his earliest collection, and perhaps because of this, I feel it still packs the biggest wallop. But if you like these stories, I recommend "Grimscribe" and "Noctuary." A personal note: Years ago I had the chance to illustrate Ligotti's story "The Night School" for a small press publication. The editor sent me a copy of the manuscript, full of Ligotti's own notes and corrections. Reading the story in that form, feeling that much closer to the original process that brought the story into being, was an awesome experience. I felt compelled to examine the manuscript, as though somewhere amid its wandering margins and sloppy typing I might detect a sign, however cryptic, a clue as to how to tap into the same chilling dreamworld that Ligotti described so beautifully. It didn't work, of course. But "Night School" did inspire a pretty good illustration and reading Ligotti did provide one of the high points during my own dubious ventures into the realm of horror fiction.
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Ligotti is undoubtedly the only living master of terror., Janv. 8 1996
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The truth is that Thomas Ligotti has come out of seemingly
nowhere in just the last ten years and has, in that time, set a new
standard in literature of the supernatural. I picked up _Songs_
in 1992, initially for the Washington Post's declaration, "Put this
on the bookshelf between Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft
where it belongs." My hopes were more than realized. Ligotti
is not only as good as the nineteenth and twentieth century
masters of the macabre. For the select few who have read his
material, he is simply one of the finest authors of the terrifying and
disturbing short story and novella ever to grace the English
language.
Do I exaggerate? Read this compilation of
masterworks and ask yourself afterwards whether Ligotti will
be considered the groundbreaking Poe or Lovecraft of the
late twentieth century. When the likes of King and Straub are
mostly forgotten in a century, it is my firm opinion that Thomas
Ligotti's stories, such as the terrifying "Dr. Locrian's Asylum",
will still be read by those students of the genre who will
still appreciate the authors subtlety, flowing eloquence, and his
chilling originality and detail of plot and character
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