Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe - Brossura

Ligotti, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0143107763 ISBN 13: 9780143107767

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2015

Riassunto

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

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Recensione

Thomas Ligotti has had one of the most quietly extraordinary careers in the history of horror fiction. He is a dense, witty, and enormously inventive writer (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

L'autore

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.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0143107763
• ISBN 13: 9780143107767
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464