Your shelf of Ligotti?

mongoose

mongoose

Mystic
Mine is admittedly pathetic compared to the real collectors on TLO, but are you willing to share your shelf of Ligotti?
 

Attachments

  • image.jpg
    image.jpg
    1.5 MB · Views: 524
Cynothoglys said:
I thought I would post pictures of my Ligotti shelves...
Click to expand...

Ha! Some of my books are in exactly that kind of utility shelf unit (I recognize the keyhole shapes in the metal). As I recall, it took a lot of pounding to put that unit together. My neighbors were probably wondering, "What's he building in there?"

That's an impressive collection of Ligottiana. My collection is not as good but it's probably borderline obsessive (multiple editions of the same titles, etc.). In general, my masses of books are not photographable except as a dire visual warning of what hoarding can do to your living space.
 
Out of curiosity, in picture 4 you have two titles, Collapse and The Book of Jade. Can you give more info about those titles? Also, holy crap
 
Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development is a journal that includes the essay Thinking Horror by Ligotti and another essay about him by, I believe, James Trafford; that one is Volume 4 and is from 2008.

The Book of Jade is a book by David Park Barnitz published in 1901; the 1998 edition includes an afterword by Ligotti.

Also, I second the "Holy Crap, Batman" by unknown below.
 
Cynothoglys - Many thanks for sharing and posting. I must extend the "Holy crap, Batman" sentiment and ask (rhetorically) how in the world can you afford to eat while acquiring that amazing collection?!
 
Nice collection. It's always smart to be a pack-rat when it comes to Tom's works. A lot of dead presidents represented on those shelves, too!
 
34s5k6u.jpg
 
Cynothoglys said:
I thought I would post pictures of my Ligotti shelves in case anyone's curious how obsessive compulsive behavior manifests itself in fanatics of his literature. Shelf three is all magazines, usually a story's first appearance, plus a couple copies of Dagon 22/23, CoC 68, Nyctalops 16, etc.

I think I need to start attending Ligotti-ics Anonymous meetings.:o
Click to expand...

Astounding. My own Ligotti collection is paltry in comparison. Not even worth posting.
 
I just moved after getting rid of a wife, but when I get my gear set up in my new house, I'll take a pic or two. I have a built a pretty ample shrine to all things Ligottian. The good news is that I never really let my (ex) wife know what my book collection is worth or what anything could be bought or sold for. That's (formerly) married collector 101, though. :cool:

Someday, my daughter will get all of it. As it should be. I am in the process of letting her know what things are generally worth so that they don't end up at a local library book sale some day.
 
We need someone on this forum to write a weird tale in tribute to the Magister called "The Man Who Collected Ligotti".

Mark S.
 
What, by the way, with reference to Justin's photo, is "Puppets of the Prairie"?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Mark S.
 
mark_samuels said:
What, by the way, with reference to Justin's photo, is "Puppets of the Prairie"?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Mark S.
Click to expand...

I probably shouldn't have posted that...and I'm not sure how long that post is going to remain up. I think we're all aware that writers don't always publish everything they write, for various reasons, and there are what might be called secret books, privately distributed. Let's just say it reads as if Bruno Schulz had rewritten Blood Meridian and leave it at that.
 
I've heard about "Puppets of the Prairie" as well, but I always assumed that it was one of those urban legends. At a panel back at the NecronomiCon event back in 2013 someone mentioned to me that he had read it and I thought he was just bullshitting, but... I do admit that the idea of the existence of privately distributed Ligotti manuscripts is enticing, it's a shame that most of us mere peons will never get to read them.
 
Just for the record, Tom never wrote anything called Puppets of the Prairie. That's urban mythology. If there is such a story, it wasn't penned by Tom. FYI
 
So far i own:
Noctuary (Spanish editon)
Born To Fear
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race
Death Poems
The Spectral Link
Teatro Grottesco
My Work Is Not Yet Done

TCATHR(Spanish edition) and SOADD & Grimscribe: His Lives And Works (Penguin classics) will be in my shelf sooner or later this year i hope.
 

Attachments

  • Ligotti.jpg
    Ligotti.jpg
    979.9 KB · Views: 178
Last edited:
My shelf rests on a rather dilapidated table in an old, a very old house. A lost leg has been replaced by several torn and moldy phonebooks collected from the lost forgotten years of my youth. The table itself has been placed carefully, strategically, to spare the precious contents the indignities of a treacherous roof. At night only the moon's light, slanting through a high cracked window, illumines these treasures. My meager resources, I regret, do not allow for such luxuries as light bulbs. Nevertheless, having read and reread these works countless times my memory does not fail; and in full dark, without even the spectral grace of the moon, I can recite these stories triumphant and aloud; sometimes capering, stutting and jerking about the wounded table (much like a demented puppet), and howling my worship through the high cracked window and treacherous roof and out through the great windy aperture where a door would be if my house possessed such things; always careful in such moments of ecstasy not to fall into the waste pit in the center of my fungus-encrusted floor.
I love my 'shelf' and will send a picture as soon as I come across my next tourist with a camera.
 
Last edited:
My shelf is pretty poor compared to some of the other Ligotti collectors on here. The Nightmare Factory, Teatro Grottesco, My Work is not yet Done, The Spectral Link, Grimscribe, (hardcover) and Noctuary (hardcover). I'm pretty sure The Nightmare Factory contains all but 2 of the short stories from Songs of a Dead Dreamer, but I could be wrong. Like I said it isn't much of a collection, but it is more than enough for me to wrap my head around.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top