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" (Matt Cardin)
• "Weird Tales Talks with Thomas Ligotti" (Darrell Schweitzer)
• "The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book" (Robert M. Price)
• "Nothing is What it Seems to Be" (Stefan R. Dziemianowicz)
• "Disillusionment can be Glamorous: an Interview with Thomas Ligotti" (E.M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner)
• "The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's 'Nethescurial'" (Matt Cardin)
• "The Dark Beauty of Unheard of Horrors" (Thomas Ligotti)
• "Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World'" (Matt Cardin)
• "Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil: Thomas Ligotti and the Post-Industrial English Underground" (William Burns)
• "Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti" (David Tibet)
• "The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: a Study of 'In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land'" (Ben P. Indick)
• "Ligotti's Corporate Horror" (Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Thomas Ligotti: Escape from Life" (
  S.T. Joshi
  )
• "A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography" (Douglas Anderson)

External links

• The Thomas Ligotti Reader title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Entry at Wildside Press