Thomas Ligotti in Spanish

[Juan Borgia]

The situation of Horror literature in Spain is desperate. I keep telling my friends at Spain that there is a whole new world of horror and dark fiction to be found in the States (and elsewhere) with names such as Ligotti, Cardin and Cisco (among others), yet Ligotti is an almost unknown name in there. Since I'm currently stationed in northeastern Mexico, it is very easy for me to find all these authors by just paying a visit to the States (it's just a two hours drive!) or buying them through American on-line stores.

This far I have only found four Ligotti stories translated to Spanish/Castilian distributed in four different anthologies:

"The Eye of the Lynx", translated as "El ojo del Lince" in Caricias de Horror 2

"The last Feast of Harlequin", translated as "La última fiesta de Arlequin" in Cthulhu 2000

"The Frolic", translated as "La Diversión", in
Los Mejores Relatos de Terror de Fantasy Tales

and

"Alice's Last Adventure", translated as "La última aventura de Alicia" in Pesadilla

These four anthologies are Spanish translations of English language anthologies.

But this is, of course, not enough, and it definitely does not serve to showcase the true gems or the Ligottian corpus... Anyone knows if by mere chance someone has plans of actually translating a collection or two of Ligotti's fiction? (I'm thinking in the lines of "Grimscribe" and "Noctuary", perhaps)

[Doctor Munoz]

Hallo Señor Borgia. Nice to see another Spaniard around here. A new victory over our chronic provincialism!
I don´t think there are plans to translate Ligotti into Spanish. However, his work would fit nicely into "Valdemar" and "Siruela" publishing houses.
Another thing is how to translate Ligotti, a most baroque, exquisite and subtle writer. Torres Oliver, Lovecraft translator have an excellent reputation, but I think he is a bit overrated.
If you want to check why some people think he made things too easy for himself when he translated Lovecraft you can read this article (in Spanish).
http://orbita.starmedia.com/~jornada...lemastrad.html
In anycase, translating Ligotti would be a challenge as well as a pleasure for anyone loving both languages and the arduous work of "translation".

[yellowish haze]

Hasn't the short story collection "999" (edited by Al Sarrantonio) been translated into Spanish? There is this Ligotti novella "The Shadow, the Darkness". The anthology is available in many languages, even in Polish, thus making "TSTD" the only work by Ligotti which I could read in my native language.

[Doctor Munoz]

Hallo Slawek! Google only gives one hit for Sarrantonio's Anthology "999" in Spanish, and the text's author is talking about the original English collection. So I don't think it was translated.

[Andrea Bonazzi]

Review of the Spanish edition of Teatro Grottesco:
diarios.detour.es/literaturas/thomas-ligotti-de-la-vida-de-las-marionetas-por-oscar-brox