The odd and disquieting short stories that formed the first volume of The Nightmare Factory had more in common with Poe than Saw. The second is even better, thanks to the inspired choice of. Ligotti is one of the giants of American horror (the others being Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. The Nightmare Factory collects most of Ligotti's previously published stories as well as some that were new to the book. In an interview Ligotti described his style as an attempt to read like awkwardly translated East-European literature. A collection of other Ligotti short story anthologies ('Grimscribe', 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer', etc), The Nightmare Factory is a fairly comprehensive journey into Ligotti's eloquent, nihilistic horror, which exists for me somewhere between Poe's manic, obsessive characterizations and Lovecraft's inexplicable, cosmic unknowns.
Awards:
“My Work Is Not Yet Done”, Long Fiction, 2002
“The Red Tower”, Long Fiction, 1996
The Nightmare Factory, Fiction Collection, 1996
Nominations:
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Non-fiction, 2010
The Nightmare Factory Thomas Ligotti
“The Bungalow House”, Short Fiction, 1995
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BIO: 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. 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 eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.
Ligotti’s stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.