THOMAS LIGOTTI
’the most baroque inheritor of Existentialism’s obsessions.’ – from NOCTUARY.
“You can just forget everything you thought you knew about yourselves and everything else in the universe. You know nothing. You are nothing. And the choices you have for dealing with this reality are to go insane or kill yourselves. How about them apples?” — quoted by Thomas Ligotti in an interview
“They wanted the death stuff, the pain stuff. All that flashy junk. They wanted cartwheels of agony; somersaults through fires of doom; nosedives of vulnerable flesh into the meat grinder of life.”
– Thomas Ligotti (from ‘Drink To Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes’)
Reviews of –
VASTARIEN Literary Journal: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vastarien/
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/the-conspiracy-against-the-human-race-by-thomas-ligotti-my-review/
‘TEATRO GROTTESCO’ collection: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/teatro-grottesco-by-thomas-ligotti-my-sixth-real-time-review-christmas-2008/
The Spectral Link: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/the-spectral-link-by-thomas-ligotti/
SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER and GRIMSCRIBE Penguin Classics
My second real-time review of TEATRO GROTTESCO HERE
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My own Bungalow House where I live: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/teatro-grottesco-thomas-ligotti/#comment-5847
My Perpetual Autumn article: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/perpetual-autumn/
My TAKE on the True Detective – Ligotti controversy:
An interesting discussion thread: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8864
LIGOTTI ARE KNOTS: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8882
“Highly sophisticated and wonderfully nightmarish imagination, an expertly controlled and sardonic vision that reminds me as much of avant-gardists like William Burroughs as it does the best traditions of horror literature”
— Thomas Ligotti on DFL in DAGON DFL SPECIAL 1989
A LIGOTTI STORY A DAY LETS THE DOCTOR STAY
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
My capsule Goodreads review of Ligotti…
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3702059771