The Nightmare Factory - Softcover

Thomas Ligotti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786703024 ISBN 13: 9780786703029

Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of horror fiction turns the abstract matter of dreaming moments into vivid and compelling nightmares

About this title

Review:

Thomas Ligotti, in his own words, writes of "a world that both surpasses and menaces this one." He is the contemporary master of the "weird tale," and yet his style is so intellectually intriguing, he has as much in common with Borges and Kafka as with Lovecraft and Machen. If you haven't discovered Ligotti yet, this edition is a great opportunity to do so: it collects all 39 stories from previous collections, plus 6 new ones--also, a forward by Poppy Z. Brite, and an introduction by Ligotti on "What are the consolations of horror?"

For more on Ligotti, see reviews of Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe: His Life and Works, and Noctuary.

About the Author:

Something of a cult figure, Thomas Ligotti is comparatively little known, but has been bestowed high praise as one of the most effective and unique horror writers of recent decades. Often compared to writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, no less than the Washington Post called Ligotti, 'the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction'. Ligotti began his publishing career in the early 1980s. For twenty-three years Ligotti worked as an Associate Editor at Gale Research. In the summer of 2001, Ligotti quit his job at the Gale Group and moved to south Florida. Nevertheless there are still some who question his actual existence and--in a fittingly Ligottian notion--claim these biographical details are part of an extended literary conspiracy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0786703024
• ISBN 13: 9780786703029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552