Thomas Ligotti Książki

„Pieśni umarłego marzyciela” to zbiór opowiadań Thomasa Ligottiego, który zapewnił mu miano klasyka nadnaturalnego horroru, wymienianego jednym tchem obok Edgara Alana Poego i Howarda Phillipsa Lovecrafta. Jednocześnie jest to dzieło, które nie boi się sięgać po ironię oraz bawić formą. Znajdziemy w nim niemal wszystkie elementy, które mogą nam się kojarzyć ze świetnie zbudowanym światem grozy. Ale każde z zamieszczonych tutaj opowiadań zawiera w sobie coś osobliwego, niepozwalającego nam przejść obojętnie wobec wyzierających zeń koszmarów. To „coś” sprawiło, że dzieło Ligottiego opublikowano w prestiżowej serii „Penguin Classics”. On sam zaś stał się jednym z zaledwie dziesięciu żywych autorów, których spotkał ten zaszczyt.

Thomas Ligotti, considered "the best-kept secret of contemporary horror literature," is a writer of supernatural fiction who has become a classic. "Noctuary" is a collection of stories grouped into three parts: "Studies of Shadow," "Discourse on Darkness," and "Notebook of the Night." The tales in this "nocturnal diary," written with meticulous care, introduce us to an ominous and deranged universe filled with unhealthy dreams, sinister dolls, and strange devices, as well as hypersensitive and sickly minds. All these ghosts that make up Ligotti's strange world move between light and shadow, dream and wakefulness, the Real and the Unreal. Thus, "Noctuary" is a chronicle of Darkness, a narrative inquiry into the very essence of terror, questioning the foundations upon which reality and reason rest.

The follow up to the cult graphic novel containing more short stories from acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti brought frighteningly to life by a collection of today's most talented writers and illustrators.

In his stories, Ligotti has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare.

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 crafted his own brand of existential horror, which shocks at the deepest levels. In decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes tormented by the lunatic pageantry of masks, puppets, and obscure ritual, Ligotti's works lay bare the sickening madness of the human condition. From his dark imagination emerge stories like "The Frolic" and "The Last Feast of Harlequin," waking nightmares that splinter the schemes validating our existence. In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness below-an ordeal from which one may perhaps return, but never to be the same

"In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work"-- Provided by publisher

"First published in hardback in the USA by Mythos Books 2002"--Title page verso.

In the vein of horror legends Poe and Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti's unsettling tales are reimagined in this collection. Four writer/artist teams adapt his most chilling stories, including a surreal carnival sacrifice, a nightmarish psychiatrist-patient bond, a town overshadowed by a sinister asylum, and an urban legend that stifles artistic desire.

Sammlung von vier Kurzgeschichten: "Sein Schatten wird zu einem höheren Haus aufsteigen", "Die Glocken werden für immer läuten", "Eine sanfte Stimme flüstert nichts" und "Wenn du das Singen hörst, wirst du wissen, dass es Zeit ist".

Debutová sbírka povídek jednoho z největších současných autorů weird fiction, velmistra hororového žánru, spisovatele, který od osmdesátých let minulého století spřádá podivné příběhy, v nichž z nočních můr vystupuje iracionalita existence. Ligottiho svět obývají posedlé postavy všemožných doktorů, umělců, profesorů, psychiatrů a psychopatů, protagonisté žijící v omšelých anonymních městech s pokřivenými domy a ulicemi a pohybující se v těžko postižitelné groteskní sféře, kterou sdílí s figurínami, loutkami a bytostmi, u nichž si nikdo nemůže být jistý, co skrývají pod maskou, nebo celou řadou masek. Jen zde zpoza oken hledí strnulí panáci se šíleným výrazem v očích, kteří vědí své o marnosti lidské existence.

In diesen Erzählungen erweckt der Thomas Ligotti, der Meister des puren Horrors ein Grauen, das im besten Sinne an die Weird Tales seines literarischen Ahnen H.P. Lovecraft, aber auch an Arthur Machen erinnert.