Le NŒUD de Ligotti

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The four links below to my complete recent real-time review of the following books, compromising most, if not all, of Thomas Ligotti’s famous stories…

SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER and GRIMSCRIBE Penguin Classics

The NOCTUARY Collection

MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE

My second real-time review after seven years of TEATRO GROTTESCO

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A FABULOUS HOAX OR GENUINE HORROR PROPHECY?
OR BOTH?
I have been reviewing the gestalt of my own recent revisit of ‘Songs of a Dead Dreamer’ and ‘Grimscribe’ (reprinted and possibly edited for the new Ligotti Penguin Classics collection), stories that I first read just under 30 years ago.
These works, based on my findings, represent an artful blend of (a) genuine, perhaps partially unintended, prophetic warnings about factors that have since emerged in our world, couched in a beautiful original Gothic-Baroque style, and (b) a ‘fabulous hoax’ that is essentially an avant garde happening.

The question remains whether Ligotti’s numerous interviews over the years and, indeed, his Conspiracy Against The Human Race are substantively part of (a) or (b)?

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AI Postscript in 2023: images triggered by my gestalt reviews of his work linked above.