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  1. 'A fractured mind is often the way into a world not suspected by those of an innocent normality.' Enter the universe of renowned horror master Thomas Ligotti—a universe where clowns take part in a sinister winter festival, a scheming girlfriend makes reality itself come unraveled, a crumbli.
  2. A large and generally very impressive gathering of imaginative and stylish horror fiction, adding several new stories to those culled from Ligotti's previous collections Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1990), Grimscribe (1991), and Noctuary (1993). Poe and Lovecraft are the obvious influences in these richly atmospheric (and often funny) tales of introversion blossoming into obsession, and of.

Thomas Ligotti The Nightmare Factory. This collection, bringing together the contents of several of Ligotti's short story collections, is a hefty volume that shows what an incredible body of work Ligotti has built up over the years. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti (1996, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

Awards:

“My Work Is Not Yet Done”, Long Fiction, 2002

“The Red Tower”, Long Fiction, 1996

The Nightmare Factory, Fiction Collection, 1996

Nominations:

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Non-fiction, 2010

“The Bungalow House”, Short Fiction, 1995

BIO: Thomas Ligotti was born in Detroit in 1953. Among the most acclaimed horror writers of the past thirty years, he has received three Bram Stoker Awards, a British Fantasy Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. He lives in South Florida. Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of 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 the human condition. 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.

The Nightmare Factory

Ligotti

This collection, bringing together the contents of several of Ligotti's short story collections, is a hefty volume that shows what an incredible body of work Ligotti has built up over the years. He is a master of the short form, writing prose that is uncomfortable and subtle, unfolding events that often appear off the page but whose resonances continue to run all through the collection. The opening tale, The Frolic, throws you straight into the deep end of Ligotti's unique form of terror. At first a seemingly harmless tale with a man talking of his work with a confined psychotic, it finishes with a far more personal and chilling flourish. It progresses with an assorted collection of tales that move in the shadows, sometimes bordering on the surreal, that slowly insinuate themselves into the reader. Sometimes there will be a shocking twist, or a satisfying final dénouement, but always it comes back to that sense of growing unease. The final tale The Red Tower is a surreal masterpiece about a strange manufacturing plant and it closes the collection with a perfect, unnerving chill.

Some of the other highlights in the collection are: Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes, a story about a hypnotist and his rather special assistant; The Last Feast of Harlequin, a long story about a man's investigation into a strange festival; Teatro Grottesco, a story about a strange afflication striking down artists. These are merely the tip of the iceburg though, a small part of the multitude of great works in this collection.

The Nightmare Factory Thomas Ligotti Pdf

Don't let the length put you off, it is a book to be savoured in pieces, to be read when the mood takes you; though more often than not, the act of putting it down after reading a tale is followed by the act of picking it up again.

Contents

  • The Frolic
  • Les Fleurs
  • Alice's Last Adventure
  • Dream of a Mannikin
  • The Chymist
  • Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes
  • Eye of the Lynx
  • The Christmas Eve of Aunt Elise
  • The Lost Art of Twilight
  • The Troubles of Dr. Thoss
  • Masquerade of a Dead Sword
  • Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech
  • Dr. Locrian's Asylum
  • The Sect of the Idiot
  • The Greater Festival of Masks
  • The Music of the Moon
  • The Journal of J.P. Drapeau
  • Vastarien
  • The Last Feast of Harlequin
  • The Spectacles in the Drawer
  • Flowers of the Abyss
  • Nethescurial
  • The Dreaming in Nortown
  • The Mystics of Muelenburg
  • In the Shadow of Another World
  • The Cocoons
  • The Night School
  • The Glamour
  • The Library of Byzantium
  • Miss Plarr
  • The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
  • The Medusa
  • Conversations in a Dead Language
  • The Prodigy of Dreams
  • Mrs Rinaldi's Angel
  • The Tsalal
  • Mad Night of Atonement
  • The Strange Design of Master Rignolo
  • The Voice in the Bones
  • Teatro Grottesco
  • Severini
  • Gas Station Carnivals
  • The Bungalow House
  • The Clown Puppet
  • The Red Tower

Bibliographic Information

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The Nightmare Factory Thomas Ligotti

  • UK P/B - Raven 1996, 1-85487-436-5
  • US P/B - Carroll & Graf Publishers 1996, 0786703024

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