Songs of a Dead Dreamer [Revised - Carroll & Graf]

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer [Revised - Carroll & Graf]	Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publication Date: May 1990 Format: Hardcover Cover Price:   Cover Artist:	Country: USA Language: English Pages:   Size:   ISBN-10: 0881845809 ISBN-13: 978-0881845808	Songs of a Dead Dreamer [Revised - Carroll & Graf]

Title	Author	Page	Pages
Introduction	Ramsey Campbell
Dreams for Sleepwalkers
The Frolic	Thomas Ligotti
Les Fleurs	Thomas Ligotti
Alice's Last Adventure	Thomas Ligotti
Dream of a Mannikin	Thomas Ligotti
The Nyctalops Trilogy
The Chymist	Thomas Ligotti
Drink to me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes	Thomas Ligotti
Eye of the Lynx	Thomas Ligotti
Notes on the Writing of Horror	Thomas Ligotti
Dreams for Insomniacs
The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise	Thomas Ligotti
The Lost Art of Twilight	Thomas Ligotti
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss	Thomas Ligotti
Masquerade of a Dead Sword	Thomas Ligotti
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech	Thomas Ligotti
Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror	Thomas Ligotti
Dreams for the Dead
Dr. Locrian's Asylum	Thomas Ligotti
The Sect of the Idiot	Thomas Ligotti
The Greater Festival of Masks	Thomas Ligotti
The Music of the Moon	Thomas Ligotti
The Journal of J. P. Drapeau	Thomas Ligotti
Vastarien	Thomas Ligotti

From Publishers Weekly

A reissue of Ligotti's first horror collection, which appeared in a limited edition in 1986, this volume includes several revised stories and others new to the book. Few of them are truly horrific; the emphasis is on language--sometimes poetic, achieving the quality of a woven tapestry, sometimes merely drab. Not one is strong on plot. "Notes on the Writing of Horror" and "Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror" straddle the line between nonfiction and fiction; they contain self-descriptive essays that are evocative of mood and setting. "The Chymist" has a new drug he shares with London's lowlife. "The Lost Art of Twilight" concerns a man trying to live down his mother's association with vampires. The cleverly titled "Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes" has an equally clever denouement. "Masquerade of a Dead Sword" is heroic fantasy with a twist. "The Music of the Moon" reminds one of Charles Williams's supernatural thriller. The other 13 stories suffer from combinations of murky prose, meaningless events and lack of focus. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.