Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe - Ligotti, Thomas

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Ligotti, Thomas

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Penguin Classics, 2015

Two terrifying modern classics by cult horror favorite Thomas Ligotti

The recent smash success of HBO's True Detective has sparked new interest in cult horror favorite Thomas Ligotti, who was cited by the show's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, as a prime influence. Ligotti's debut story collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and its follow-up, Grimscribe, marked a major evolution in supernatural horror. 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 atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. 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.

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