Your First Ligotti Collection

I checked Ligotti out due to him being touted as the new Poe or Lovecraft, but I was cynical after being caustically stabbed by bad recommendations from the online weird fiction community. For context, I had just finished reading Derleth's Trail of Cthulhu. I picked up Teatro Grottesco because at the time it was the only one of Ligotti's collections still in print, which is odd to think as this was only a few years ago.

I was a fan by the end of Purity. His most underrated tale and possibly my favourite. The site consensus on here seems to be that his later fiction isn't as good, but I think Ligotti is one of the only horror writers who is both consistently great and has only gotten greater as time moves on.