The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays & Explorations [Hardcover]

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The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays & Explorations [Hardcover]	Publisher: Wildside Press Publication Date: April 2003 Format: Hardcover Cover Price: $35.00 USD Cover Artist: Jason Van Hollander	Country: USA Language: English Pages: 192 Size: 9.3x6.2x0.7 inches ISBN-10: 1592241298 ISBN-13: 978-1592241293	The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays & Explorations [Hardcover]

Printing Notes Produced by print-on-demand, the earliest copies of this book have an extra essay by John Langan listed in the table of contents, but which doesn't appear in the book. In early 2004 Wildside announced the publication (scheduled for May 2004) of a smythe-sewn hardcover editions, 100 copies signed and by Ligotti, editor Schweitzer, and cover artist Jason Van Hollander, and 26 lettered copies featuring an extra remarque by Van Hollander, but this edition does not seem to have been published. Cover Text Ever since the first edition of Thomas Ligotti's 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer' appeared in 1985, it was clear that here was an author of extraordinary brilliance and originality. In following years there has been a great deal of interest in the author and his works, although, until now, articles about him have mostly been scattered in obscure journals. Now, at last, here is a book about him, a symposium of explorations and examinations of the Ligottian universe by such leading critics as S.T. Joshi, Stefan Dzimianowicz, Robert M. Price. With a complete, up-to-date bibliography of Ligotti's work, two interviews with him, and even a fascinating essay by Ligotti himself. Title Author Page Pages Introduction Darrell Schweitzer     Thomas Ligotti's Career of Nightmares Matt Cardin     Weird Tales Talks with Thomas Ligotti Darrell Schweitzer     The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book Robert M. Price     Nothing Is What It Seems to Be Stefan R. Dziemianowicz     Disillusionment Can Be Glamorous: an Interview with Thomas Ligotti E. M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner     The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's 'Nethescruial' Matt Cardin     The Dark Beauty of Unheard of Horrors Thomas Ligotti     Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World' Matt Cardin     Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil: Thomas Ligotti and the Post-Industrial English Undergound William Burns     Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti David Tibet     The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: a Study of In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land Ben P. Indick     Ligotti's Corporate Horror Darrell Schweitzer     Thomas Ligotti: Escape from Life S. T. Joshi     A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography Douglas A. Anderson