Favorite Ligotti Story

[SecretWindow]

I haven't thought the same way of theatres or nighttime since reading The Glamour.

[gryeates]

After some consideration, mine is a slightly unusual choice, I think. I was tempted to select The Bungalow House but, in fact, I think the vignette The Malignant Matrix is my favourite piece. There is something unique and powerful about the closing lines for me.

[GirlyGirlMask]

"Alice's Last Adventure" or "The Troubles of Dr. Thoss". I'm quite fond, as most Ligotti fans are, of "The Bungalow House" as well.

[T.E. Grau]

I certainly haven't read them all (to my great chagrin), but from what I have read, these are my favorite slices of Ligotti off the top of my head, in no particular order:

- "Conversations in a Dead Language"
- "The Glamour"
- "Our Temporary Supervisor"
- "Gas Station Carnivals"
- "The Red Tower"
- "Nethescurial"
- "The Town Manager"
- "The Bungalow House"
- "Teatro Grottesco"

Gas Station Carnivals for today.

[Thossyphus]

In no particular order:
"The Library of Byzantium"
"Teatro Grottesco"
"Gas Station Carnivals"
"The Spectacles in the Drawer"
"The Troubles of Dr. Thoss"
"The Tsalal"
"Vastarien"
"The Clown Puppet"
"The Shadow, The Darkness"

Calling these 'favorites' isn't quite right. These made and continue to make such an impression (in the same way that being impaled by something leaves 'an impression') that I see them and hear them more vividly and loudly after the pages ran out than some of the others.

...anybody else feel stricken with physically painful anxiety when asked to choose favorites among cherished things? Not that I ever forget, but boy oh boy does this Tom fellow's work mean a lot to me.