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Œuvres de Thomas Ligotti

Teatro Grottesco (2006) 721 exemplaires
My Work is Not Yet Done (2002) 397 exemplaires
Noctuary (1994) 361 exemplaires
Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (1986) 349 exemplaires
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works (1991) 339 exemplaires
The Nightmare Factory (1996) 290 exemplaires
The Nightmare Factory (2007) 183 exemplaires
The Spectral Link (2014) 115 exemplaires
Death Poems (2004) 81 exemplaires
The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 2 (2008) 66 exemplaires
Crampton (2002) 38 exemplaires
Sideshow and Other Stories (2003) 25 exemplaires
Pictures of Apocalypse (2023) 14 exemplaires
Paradoxes from Hell 9 exemplaires
THIS DEGENERATE LITTLE TOWN (2001) 4 exemplaires
The Bungalow House 3 exemplaires
Gas Station Carnivals 2 exemplaires
The Town Manager 2 exemplaires
The Frolic 2 exemplaires
Metaphysica Morum 1 exemplaire
Nedovršeni posao 1 exemplaire
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel 1 exemplaire
Lo scriba macabro (2015) 1 exemplaire
The Nightmare Factory 1 exemplaire
The Cocoons 1 exemplaire
Miss Plarr 1 exemplaire
Screams and Whispers 1 exemplaire
Les Fleurs 1 exemplaire
Purity 1 exemplaire

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A Taste for Blood (1992) — Contributeur — 107 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
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Best New Horror 3 (1992) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
Halloween (2011) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 (2001) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
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Best of the Rest 3 (2002) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Po Drugiej Stronie (2013) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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Critiques

Ligotti writes very well. The best stories here are very good indeed, but like many collections of horror stories, they shouldn't all be read at once. As I proceeded into the second volume here (Grimscribe), I started to notice a sameness in the themes. Ligotti is always writing about hidden horrors, and the characters encounter them in a number of creative ways, but in the end it all amounts to the same thing. The obvious influence here is Lovecraft; however, Ligotti's writing is much more refined. Although he does like to use a wide vocabulary including some unusual words, his writing is always under control. It always has a tone that invites the reader in--but again--don't read these all in a row or your pleasure will definitely be reduced.… (plus d'informations)
 
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datrappert | 11 autres critiques | Mar 18, 2024 |
(I only read half of this book, that is, all of the Songs of A Dead Dreamer section)

This is the kind of book that makes me really dislike writers. Ligotti seems like one of those guys who has spent way too much time in creative writing classrooms and workshops, reading a lot of middlebrow short fiction. I reckon that in every story I read I encountered 3 or 4 pointlessly esoteric words that could have (and should have) easily been edited out, words that the author probably wrote down in a moleskin somewhere so he could whip it out later and suss up his prose. When I first started reading this book I thought the fluffy language was an affectation of the first person narrator; I was disappointed to find that even in the third person stories there is a neckbeard-with-a-thesaurus-on-a fan-fiction-website level of purplishness. The author really seems like he can’t help himself.

The intro to the edition I read compared Ligotti to Kafka, which I had heard before and which attracted me to this book. This is a terrible comparison. Kafka is a profoundly funny writer, and Ligotti most definitely is not. Kafka mourns for the loss of humanity brought on by unconscionable systems. In this volume Ligotti offers little proof that he has ever interacted with another person. This is the profound loss of experience and inspiration that comes from finding your artistic voice through the academic and workshop pipeline - you write as a writer for other writers and not from any unique conception of reality, a conception that can only be built to satisfaction by finding something to say before your start blabbering away, pulling crossword puzzle words out of your moleskin.

I was reminded reading this of an extreme metal festival I once went to. The first couple bands I saw play were pretty cool. But after a few hours I became aware of, and exhausted by, the overbearing pressure of “genre” - these bands were so caught up in being metal that they became clownish. I started to get bored. Then one band had the gall, the brash iconoclasm to play a major chord. It felt like the roof was about to tear off to reveal god’s burning, beautiful eye placidly considering this flock of sheep play Halloween dress up. There are no major chords in this book. It’s all one twisted, cranky carnival music box that becomes a parody of itself after a while. I guess that’s always the risk when you are a “genre” writer.
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hdeanfreemanjr | 11 autres critiques | Jan 29, 2024 |
It's probably a good thing for humanity that Ligotti is spending his time writing excellent fiction instead of buying a gun and shooting up his workplace. Although he might not view it that way.
 
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ethorwitz | 11 autres critiques | Jan 3, 2024 |
Ligotti's prose poetry lacks the force of his fiction.
 
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