Forum: Jon Padgett
02-27-2020
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 13,640
Re: THE BROKER OF NIGHTMARES by Jon Padgett
I also liked this story. The dream sequences do achieve that kind of nonsensical yet realistic-feeling atmosphere of creepy dreams. But this is alsoa story about addiction and how it can control...
|
|
Forum: Thomas Ligotti
02-21-2020
|
|
Replies: 23
Views: 13,566
Re: Ligotti's Unpublished Stories
The stories alone, probably around 60 pages, as some are only a couple pages long. Add the poems, maybe another 10? Maybe could be stretched to 100 if you included “This degenerate little town” and...
|
|
Forum: Thomas Ligotti
02-19-2020
|
|
Replies: 23
Views: 13,566
Re: Ligotti's Unpublished Stories
Not unpublished but uncollected:
Allan and Adelaide
first published in Fantasy Macabre #2, reprinted once in the Crypt of Cthulthu #68, which was dedicated solely to Ligotti's fiction
Ghost...
|
|
Forum: Happy Birthday
08-31-2019
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 4,103
|
|
Forum: Matt Cardin
06-11-2019
|
|
Replies: 36
Views: 19,182
|
|
Forum: Happy Birthday
04-01-2019
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 2,901
|
|
Forum: W. H. Pugmire
03-26-2019
|
|
Replies: 28
Views: 13,448
Re: News
Didn't know him personally but his posts here were always lively elegant and his enthusiasm for all things weird, ligottian, or lovecraftian was contagious. RIP
|
|
Forum: General Discussion
02-24-2019
|
|
Replies: 42
Views: 25,493
Re: Junji Ito thread
In the introduction to Noctuary Ligotti makes a distinction between horror and the weird as horror having an explanation while the weird is an enigma that can't be dispelled. Going by that...
|
|
Forum: General Discussion
02-24-2019
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 8,542
|
|
Forum: Quentin S. Crisp
02-22-2019
|
|
Replies: 23
Views: 12,171
Re: Graves - A Distressing Novel
I finally read the One-Ball novel within the last couple weeks, and I'm still in a sour mood over it. Both disturbing and horribly depressing. Good thing Graves is still months away as I probably...
|
|
Forum: Ligotti News
07-09-2018
|
|
Replies: 89
Views: 43,435
Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Ligotti
Hoping he has a good day. If I could I'd buy him a cake, or any dessert/baked good he prefers, both for the birthday and as a token of gratitude for the years of unparalleled writing he's given us.
|
|
Forum: Happy Birthday
04-02-2018
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 2,896
Re: Happy Birthday ramonoski
Thank you everyone. I don't really put much stock on my own birthday, but I appreciate the thought. I've been seldom active on this site for a while now, but I plan to remedy that. I guess I had a...
|
|
Forum: Website News
02-04-2018
|
|
Replies: 20
Views: 15,340
Re: Thomas Ligotti Online - 20 Year Anniversary
A hearty thank you to both Drs. for keeping this site up and running, and to everyone that has made and keeps making this community the good, comfy place it is.
To celebrate, here's a cake that...
|
|
Forum: General Discussion
11-01-2017
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 6,267
|
|
Forum: Mark Samuels
11-01-2017
|
|
Replies: 94
Views: 48,912
Re: THE PROZESS MANIFESTATIONS (new collection)
I've read "Decay" and "Moon Blood Red – Tide Turning". Not sure I'd rank them among my favourite stories of his, but they're good. The latter in particular. That said, yes, I wish Mark and Zagava...
|
|
Forum: Television
09-07-2017
|
|
Replies: 289
Views: 104,879
Re: Twin Peaks - Series 3
I've seen this posted around. I vouch not for its validity, and it might be more of a coincidence or a big stretch, but it seems intriguing at least.
|
|
Forum: Ligotti News
08-11-2017
|
|
Replies: 106
Views: 55,107
|
|
Forum: Ligotti News
07-09-2017
|
|
Replies: 89
Views: 43,435
Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Ligotti
Existence is in many ways a nightmare, but I'm glad I discovered the work of Ligotti because it has in many ways made my life less unbearable.* I'm doubly glad I got to say this to him in one of the...
|
|
Forum: Other News
05-14-2017
|
|
Replies: 236
Views: 146,945
Re: Snuggly Books
I'm about halfway through The Cutest Girl in Class and so far I'm loving it. Just finished the long chapter at the gazebo, and even if the book takes a horrible nosedive from there and ends fizzing...
|
|
Forum: Happy Birthday
04-25-2017
|
|
Replies: 30
Views: 10,620
Re: Happy Birthday qcrisp
Happy birthday Quentin. Hope it was a good one. The happy birthday song/ by Arrogant Worms - YouTube
|
|
Forum: Off Topic
04-16-2017
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 4,683
Re: Clark
Just finished it today. Great novel, entertaining from start to finish. Eric Clark's career moves along with the history of Italian cinema, a subject I'm not very familiar with but the few references...
|
|
Forum: Philosophy
04-15-2017
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 9,854
|
|
Forum: General Discussion
04-06-2017
|
|
Replies: 15
Views: 10,280
Re: Stories without Characters
Unsure if something like Bruno Schulz' "a treatise on mannequins" would apply, as there is a narrator that has been pre-stablished by the tales before it and he is adressing an audience, yet the core...
|
|
Forum: Mark Samuels
04-04-2017
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 7,625
Re: In Eternity - Two Lines Intersect
Very good story. And reading, too. I have noticed that when I read something off paper I end up rushing through some sentences—initially because a story has put forth a very intriguing premise and I...
|
|
Forum: Reggie Oliver
03-27-2017
|
|
Replies: 307
Views: 179,090
Re: Reggie Oliver
Reading "The Perfect Author", spoilers now, I want to say that it was the narrator who murdered Elsa, and not "Bertha." But I don't really have any concrete proof about it other than this odd gut...
|
