New Essay About Thomas Ligotti's Works by D.P. Watt

[bendk]

Another update. If Thinking Horror is defunct, perhaps some of these articles could be rescued by Vastarien.

[Jeff Matthews]

Editor SJ Bagley says they intend to publish it and has apologized for delays.

[Sam]

I have to take responsibility here. I agreed to do the layout for Thinking Horror Volume 2 and received the first draft of the contents eight months ago. Since then it has basically been in my hands and the subsequent delay is on me. s.j. bagley has been very understanding about the whole thing and it is in no way their fault.

I have completed a basic layout for the full 394-page volume and am in the process of cleaning up the last half. After that we'll get proofs and as long as they are good, books should be available soon thereafter.

D.P. Watt's essay "The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist," is indeed in there. It goes 14 pages, with footnotes and works cited, and for me is one of the highlights of the volume.

I apologize for taking so long with this and will finish it ASAP.

[Gnosticangel]

Thanks Sam, really respect you for stepping up here, and special thanks for providing we TLO members with an update on the status!

I think it goes without saying that many of us support this project and will greet its publication with enthusiasm.

	TLO THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE

[Sam]

Thanks. I'm getting offline and back to work now but first here is the updated TOC. I think a couple of things have changed since the first announcement. This is what is coming:

1. An Endless Laceration: The limit experience in horror - Daniel Pietersen
2. The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist - Daniel Watt
3. THINKING HORROR Interview: Steve Rasnic Tem
4. Blood-Borne: Viral Culture and the Ambiguous Corporeality in Splatterpunk Literature - Onni Mustonen
5. THINKING HORROR Interview: Nick Mamatas
6. His Knife, Her Shadow - J. T. Glover
7. The Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People” - Kristi DeMeester
8. THINKING HORROR Interview: Lisa Tuttle
9. Nothing Will Have Happened: Speculation and Horror in the Anthropocene - David Peak
10. Your worst fear: Monstrous Feminine(ism) and the Horror Boom of the 1970s - Andrew P. Williams, Ph.D.
11. THINKING HORROR Interview: John Skipp
12. Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King’s It - Mike Thorn
13. "HELLO FROM THE SEWERS OF N.Y.C." -- T.E.D. Klein's "Children of the Kingdom" - Michael Cisco
14. “A Faint Sense of Double Vision”: Cinematic Tensions and Transmedial Anxieties in the Fiction of Files/Barringer, Wehunt, Tremblay, Link, and Ballingrud - Christopher Burke
15. Of Rats and Men: the Horror of the Pied Piper - Kristin Peterson
16. Mi Him En Tow: Stephen King and the Challenge of Faith - Gemma Files

[mongoose]

Eagerly awaiting its appearance on amazon - credit card ready!

[Sam]

I turned in what I think is the final draft of TH2 a couple of weeks ago and I believe printed proofs are imminent. Soon come, I promise!

[Gnosticangel]

Wonderful news!

[Sam]

The day has arrived! THINKING HORROR VOLUME 2 is now in stock at Amazon.

Here is the full cover, art and design by the wonderful Stephen Wilson: