Thomas Ligotti: The Horror-Maker

[Jeff Coleman]

"What if we ourselves are the blind gods set adrift in a universe of death where only the nightmares break through the barrier and gap of the Real, and with each step we take we enter another chapter in our already endless death-in-Life? An eternal return of the great round of eros and thanatos: the universe as catastrophe and pure jouissance. What if we ourselves are the very powers who squander our lives in trivial games of human degradation, while in truth our task is to set free the horror of the Real and let the games of eros and thanatos begin in transgression and ecstasy? Maybe as Ligotti affirms: 'There is no refuge from the living void, the terror of the invisible.' We are the void, and the terror is of our own making, for we are the Horror-Makers of this charade, this catastrophic universe of pure death and jouissance, of erotic ecstasy in endless degradation and corruption. Eternal metamorphosis and transformation, and the energy of an active principle in matter moving through all things, as in Blake: 'Energy is eternal delight!'"

http://darkecologies.com/2015/10/01/...-horror-maker/

[Jeff Coleman]

Updated link:

Thomas Ligotti: The Horror-Maker | alien ecologies

(He changed domains.)

Also, he wrote a short series of Ligotti influenced posts:

https://socialecologies.wordpress.co...e-of-the-real/

https://socialecologies.wordpress.co...he-wyrd-weird/