A humble attempt to imitate the style of Thomas Ligotti

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Not all letters are equally hopeless.

Originally written in Russian and then translated.

Philip Challinor

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A brief tale of an abbreviated tale

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There, in the second floor there was that grotesque feminine figure. Its left arm crooked up, pointing with one slender white finger upwards. A short, black wig covered its head. Sparkling black eyes.

MoeShinola1

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A man returns home only to find that he has company

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A Report from the Village “Are we content? I am the god who has made this caricature.” - Nietzsche I. This is my fortieth year in the village. That is to say, our fortieth year, for not one amongst us can produce any evidence to an existence prior to the day we all...

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This is how it happens sometimes, maybe tonight, maybe to you and god damn that would be harsh. He calls, he’s ten minutes away, just left the drive-through picking up your prescription

Short stubby beginning to a graphic novel

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Buddy comedy in future inferno

James Champagne

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short story begun in 2010 and completed in 2011.

He likes sharpening pencils.

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came to me last night as I drifted off to sleep. Thankfully, I had the right gadget handy to catch it at the moment.

Gray House

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A story about the shedding of all fears.

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As hyperventilation began, I already knew that I was inside a very narrow space, for in my case hyperventilation was always connected with claustrophobia. When I had noticed that I was locked inside a glass booth of some kind, I first looked to the left, then to the right. On my left I...

Jeremy Willis

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This is an excerpt from a longer hack job. It attempts to set up a dynamic between Mr. Gibbons and his new employee. I'm posting it to see what sort of feedback I might get from this here community. Criticisms welcome!

Gray House

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Surreal strangeness.

Gray House

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A short series of connected prose-poems.

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An amateur illusionist attempts to unravel the secrets behind his favourite stage performer's acts. He learns about certain unrealities in the process...

This story is my own little exercise in mimicking an idol. Hope it's entertaining even if unsuccessful.

M. R. Jamieson

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Keen for comments ... thank you.

James George Stewart

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A short tale of cyclical nightmares.

James George Stewart

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Ever since I can remember I have received daily transmissions from some entity known as the Undr Corporation. Whether this is by accident or by design I have not found out, for I am not, nor have I ever been, an employee of this corporation. But whatever the case may be there is little I can do...

Wesley James Young

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A man summons a muse and gets more than he bargined for...
(This is somthing I have been working on but have yet to get just right. If anyone Would care to comment, I would be most appreciative.)

Brendan N. Moody

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This is a Ligottian story I worked on a few years ago, as a college senior. Eventually it morphed into a T.E.D. Klein pastiche before being abandoned entirely, but I saved the earliest workings, and have edited them slightly for inclusion here on the theory that, stylistically and thematically...