The Nightmare Factory [Raven]

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The Nightmare Factory [Raven]	Publisher: Raven Publication Date: June 1996 Format: Trade Paperback Cover Price:   Cover Artist:	Country: UK Language: English Pages: 552 Size: 8x5x1.8 inches	The Nightmare Factory [Raven]

Title	Author	Page	Pages
Foreword	Poppy Z. Brite	ix	2
Introduction: The Consolations of Horror	Thomas Ligotti	xi	11
Part 1: from Songs of a Dead Dreamer		1	2
The Frolic	Thomas Ligotti	3	13
Les Fleurs	Thomas Ligotti	16	7
Alice's Last Adventure	Thomas Ligotti	23	16
Dream of a Mannikin	Thomas Ligotti	39	13
The Chymist	Thomas Ligotti	52	10
Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes	Thomas Ligotti	62	9
Eye of the Lynx	Thomas Ligotti	71	8
The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise	Thomas Ligotti	79	8
The Lost Art of Twilight	Thomas Ligotti	87	26
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss	Thomas Ligotti	103	11
Masquerade of a Dead Sword	Thomas Ligotti	114	18
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech	Thomas Ligotti	132	9
Dr. Locrian's Asylum	Thomas Ligotti	141	9
The Sect of the Idiot	Thomas Ligotti	150	9
The Greater Festival of Masks	Thomas Ligotti	159	7
The Music of the Moon	Thomas Ligotti	166	7
The Journal of J. P. Drapeau	Thomas Ligotti	173	6
Vastarien	Thomas Ligotti	179	13
Part 2: Grimscribe		192	3
The Last Feast of Harlequin	Thomas Ligotti	195	34
The Spectacles in the Drawer	Thomas Ligotti	229	11
Flowers of the Abyss	Thomas Ligotti	240	7
Nethescurial	Thomas Ligotti	247	13
The Dreaming in Nortown	Thomas Ligotti	260	20
The Mystics of Muelenburg	Thomas Ligotti	280	7
In the Shadow of Another World	Thomas Ligotti	287	12
The Cocoons	Thomas Ligotti	299	9
The Night School	Thomas Ligotti	308	10
The Glamour	Thomas Ligotti	318	9
The Library of Byzantium	Thomas Ligotti	327	12
Miss Plarr	Thomas Ligotti	339	9
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World	Thomas Ligotti	348	8
Part 3: from Noctuary		357	2
The Medusa	Thomas Ligotti	359	18
Conversations in a Dead Language	Thomas Ligotti	377	12
The Prodigy of Dreams	Thomas Ligotti	389	10
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel	Thomas Ligotti	399	10
The Tsalal	Thomas Ligotti	409	27
Mad Night of Atonement	Thomas Ligotti	436	13
The Strange Designs of Master Rignolo	Thomas Ligotti	449	10
The Voice in the Bones	Thomas Ligotti	459	8
Part 4: Teatro Grottesco and Other Tales		467	2
Teatro Grottesco	Thomas Ligotti	469	17
Severini	Thomas Ligotti	486	12
Gas Station Carnivals	Thomas Ligotti	498	16
The Bungalow House	Thomas Ligotti	514	19
The Clown Puppet	Thomas Ligotti	533	9
The Red Tower	Thomas Ligotti	542	9

From Amazon.com

Thomas Ligotti, in his own words, writes of "a world that both surpasses and menaces this one." He is the contemporary master of the "weird tale," and yet his style is so intellectually intriguing, he has as much in common with Borges and Kafka as with Lovecraft and Machen. If you haven't discovered Ligotti yet, this edition is a great opportunity to do so: it collects all 39 stories from previous collections, plus 6 new ones--also, a forward by Poppy Z. Brite, and an introduction by Ligotti on "What are the consolations of horror?"

From Booklist

In this stout volume, Ligotti offers American readers selections from three previous collections not readily available in the U.S. and, in a concluding section, some entirely new pieces. Very little seems to be known about Ligotti, but to judge from his stories, he is well traveled, has a superb command of setting and tone as well as of the English language, and is strongly biased toward the darker end of the fantasy spectrum. He also exhibits admirable economy of words, for more than 50 of his stories fit between the covers of this book. If there is very little here that will slake the lover of vast, sprawling horror novels, connoisseurs of literary skill who are willing to be frightened will find the book a feast, albeit one best consumed in small helpings. Roland Green

From Kirkus Reviews

A large and generally very impressive gathering of imaginative and stylish horror fiction, adding several new stories to those culled from Ligotti's previous collections Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1990), Grimscribe (1991), and Noctuary (1993). Poe and Lovecraft are the obvious influences in these richly atmospheric (and often funny) tales of introversion blossoming into obsession, and of antiquarian scholars unwisely uncovering things that really ought to have been buried. Ligotti's prefatory essay on ``The Consolations of Horror'' broods wittily about the kind of person who enjoys this sort of thing, advising helpfully that, in reading such material, ``for a little while we can pretend to stare the very worst right in the rotting face.'' Of the new stories, ``Teatro Grottesco'' and ``Severini'' portray with perhaps excessive flamboyance the neurotic sources and feverish aftermath of artistic creation. Both ``The Clown Puppet,'' whose absurdly menacing title figure memorably objectifies its narrator's ``nonsensical'' existence, and ``The Red Tower,'' about an abandoned factory whose unspeakable products are surreptitiously still being sent out into the unsuspecting world, show Ligotti doing what he does best: Turning the abstract matter of our unguarded dreaming moments into vivid and compelling nightmares. Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.