The Thomas Ligotti Reader


The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays and Explorations is a collection of essays on American horror writer Thomas Ligotti and his works, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in trade paperback in April 2003 by Wildside Press, with a hardcover edition from the same publisher following in July of the same year.
The book consists of thirteen essays by various authors, including one by Ligotti himself, together with a bibliography of Ligotti's published works.

Contents

  • "Thomas Ligotti's Career of Nightmares"
  • "Weird Tales Talks with Thomas Ligotti"
  • "The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book"
  • "Nothing is What it Seems to Be"
  • "Disillusionment can be Glamorous: an Interview with Thomas Ligotti"
  • "The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's 'Nethescurial'"
  • "The Dark Beauty of Unheard of Horrors"
  • "Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World'"
  • "Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil: Thomas Ligotti and the Post-Industrial English Underground"
  • "Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti"
  • "The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: a Study of 'In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land'"
  • "Ligotti's Corporate Horror"
  • "Thomas Ligotti: Escape from Life"
  • "A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography"