Songs of a dead dreamer and Grimscribe
By: Thomas Ligotti ; foreword by Jeff Vandermeer
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780143107767
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of human consciousness. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.
Table of contents: title: Songs of a dead dreamer; title: Grimscribe.