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Old 10-29-2023   #1
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Ligotti Presentation and Reading of The Shadow at the Bottom of the world


I can't wait! This Saturday at 1:30pm in Dunnstown, er, Mobile, Alabama! I'll be introducing and reading one of my very favorite tales.

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Delve into "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," a tale by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, featuring an uncanny figure akin to Lovecraft's eldritch entities, yet uniquely Ligottian in its form and the existential dread it evokes. In his introduction to the story, horror author and Ligotti narrator and scholar Jon Padgett elucidates Ligotti's significance as a contemporary heir to Lovecraft. Through the lens of "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," discover an autumnal outré horror of the sort only the mind of Thomas Ligotti could conjure. Following the intro, Padgett will read Ligotti's enthralling, classic tale in its entirety. Don’t miss it!

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What cool news. I will be there with you in spirit, Jon. I hope it's an enjoyable time for you and everyone.
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Re: Ligotti Presentation and Reading of The Shadow at the Bottom of the world
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What cool news. I will be there with you in spirit, Jon. I hope it's an enjoyable time for you and everyone.
Your essay on liminal spaces in The Shadow at the Bottom of the World actually inspired me to write the intro. I quote you in it. A lot of the intro compares Ligotti's story to HPL's "The Colour Out of Space," which feels like its direct literary ancestor.
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Re: Ligotti Presentation and Reading of The Shadow at the Bottom of the world
Here's the whole thing minus a line or two of the story itself. Please excuse the sound on and off for the first ten or fifteen minutes. I was competing with a film showing next door.

"Thomas Ligotti is a master of a different order, practically a different species. He probably couldn’t fake it if he tried, and he never tries. He writes like horror incarnate.”
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