The Grimscribe's Puppets

Shirley Jackson Award 2013.

Edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Thomas Ligotti is beyond doubt one of the Grandmasters of Weird Fiction. In The Grimscribe's Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., has commissioned both new and established talents in the world of weird fiction and horror to contribute all new tales that pay homage to Ligotti and celebrate his eerie and essential nightmares. Poppy Z. Brite once asked, "Are you out there, Thomas Ligotti?" This anthology proves not only is he alive and well, but his extraordinary illuminations have proven to be a visionary and fertile source of inspiration for some of today’s most accomplished authors.

Contents:

• Livia Llewellyn - "Furnace"
• Daniel Mills - "The Lord Came at Twilight"
• Michael Cisco - "The Secrets of the Universe"
• Kaaron Warren - "The Human Moth"
• Joel Lane - "Basement Angels"
• Darrell Schweitzer - "No Signal"
• Robin Spriggs - "THE XENAMBULIST: A Fable in Four Acts"
• Nicole Cushing - "The Company Town"
• Cody Goodfellow - "The Man Who Escaped This Story"
• Michael Kelly - "Pieces of Blackness"
• Eddie M. Angerhuber - "The Blue Star"
• Jon Padgett - "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism"
• Robert M. Price - "The Holiness of Desolation"
• Michael Griffin - "Diamond Dust"
• Richard Gavin - "After the Final"
• Scott Nicolay - "Eyes Exchange Bank"
• Simon Strantzas - "By Invisible Hands"
• Paul Tremblay - "Where We Will All Be"
• Allyson Bird - "Gailestis"
• Jeffrey Thomas - "The Prosthesis"
• John Langan - "Into the Darkness, Fearlessly"
• Gemma Files - "Oubliette"