Lovecraft eZine (via multiple weird fiction writers) Interview Thomas Ligotti

[dr. locrian]

This was a truly brilliant idea on Lovecraft eZine editor, Mike Davis', part, and it made for one of my favorite, most in-depth and personal Ligotti interviews ever. Authors John Langan, Richard Gavin, Rick Lai, Nicole Cushing, Jeffrey Ford, Pete Rawlik, Joe Pulver, S.P. Miskowski, Michael Cisco, Salome Jones, and Ramsey Campbell provide the questions.

Check it out here:

THE LOVECRAFT EZINE INTERVIEWS THOMAS LIGOTTI

Quote Originally Posted by Thomas Ligotti

' When the voice of the narrator of “The Chymist” began pouring out of me and rambling about his fascination with a corrupt world of ever-mutating decay, I felt as if I had spoken my first words.'

I found this beautiful.

Great to see him expressing his admiration for Clark Ashton Smith's poetry, which I have also recently come to see as superior to his pulp tales.

Quote Originally Posted by Pete Rawlik

'Insane Clown Posse have spawned a movement of followers who seem to embrace both absurdity and nihilism'

Insane Clown Posse - Miracles - YouTube

This isn't nihilism, Pete.

[Insentient Traveler]

Excellent.

[matt cardin]

My initial impression is that this is probably the single coolest thing that has happened in the long history of Tom's interviews. I haven't even had a chance to read the thing in depth yet, I've only skimmed it, but it's already obvious that the approach elicited many marvelous responses. Thank you for the link, Jon. And thank you or the reading pleasure, Mike.

[hopfrog]

It was indeed a brilliant idea, and Tom's answers were so generous and fascinating. I love little things, like how he calls Poe "Edgar Poe" rather than "Edgar Allan Poe"--as Poe never signed himself with those three names, but always as "Edgar A. Poe". Why he became known as Edgar Allan Poe mystifies me. I also like Tom's comments on the importance of Lovecraft's superb sonnet cycle, FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH, a work with which I have long been obsess'd. I have been reading ye Penguin Classics book slowly, and its offerings please me more than ever. There is a freshness in Thomas Ligotti's work that makes rereading the stories an absolutely pleasure. To be able to return to his work and enjoy it so completely lessens the ache of knowing that we will probably see few if any future tales.

[teguififthzeal]

That's almost a book length interview. Neat!

[miguel1984]

Three great news from the interview: Ligotti is interested in writing some fictional or non-fictional work about what he endured in 2012, he would also like to expand on the themes of Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror and his anhedonia is back, but not with a vengeance.