Noctuary
The ultimate in subtle horror... Ligotti tells these stories with an eerie, elegant style whose words emphasize the strange as much as the events do.
Contents:
- In the Night, In the Dark: A Note on the
Appreciation of Weird Fiction (Foreword)
Part One: Studies in Shadow
- The Medusa
- Conversations in a Dead Language
- The Prodigy of Dreams
- Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel
Part Two: Discourse on Blackness
- The Tsalal
- Mad Night of Atonement
- The Strange Design of Master Rignolo
- The Voice in the Bones
Part Three: Notebook of the Night
- The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets
- Salvation by Doom
- New Faces in the City
- Autumnal
- One May Be Dreaming
- Death without End
- The Unfamiliar
- The Career of Nightmares
- The Physic
- The Demon Man
- The Puppet Masters
- The Spectral Estate
- Primordial Loathing
- The Nameless Horror
- Invocation to the Void
- The Mocking Mystery
- The Interminable Equation
- The Eternal Mirage
- The Order of Illusion
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Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953) is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings, while unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been described as works of "philosophical horror", often written as philosophical novels with a "darker" undertone which is similar to gothic fiction. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction"; another critic declared "It's a skilled writer indeed who can suggest a horror so shocking that one is grateful it was kept offstage."
