Новинки Томас Лиготти

Простой рабочий на фабрике компании "Квайн Организешен" замечает, что условия труда ухудшились после смены управляющего. Новый начальник не выходит из своего кабинета, а рабочий, решивший задать ему вопросы, умирает от нервного потрясения. Ситуация на фабрике становится все более странной и необъяснимой.

Когда менеджера Фрэнка Доминио смещают с должности, а затем несправедливо увольняют, он решает поквитаться со своими начальниками. Неожиданно он обретает странного союзника – темную, зловещую силу, которая наделяет его невероятными способностями. Теперь месть Фрэнка приобретет по-настоящему жуткие масштабы. Но почему тьма помогает ему, и не стал ли он пешкой в игре, смысл которой обыкновенный человек просто не способен постичь? Но это далеко не все истории. Здесь фирму преследует злой рок, монополистические желания одной международной компании начинают физически изменять ее работников, люди живут бок о бок с таинственным маленьким народцем,…

От Экклезиаста до Шопенгауэра, от четырех благородных истин Буддизма до "Последнего мессии" Цапффе - пессимизм присутствует в философии и религии незримой тенью, хотя нынешний век и стремится от нее убежать, записывая пессимистов в больных, ненормальных или попросту дефектных людей, страдающих хронической депрессией.

Томас Лиготти сознательно идет против этого течения, издеваясь над самыми нелепыми и популярными догмами современности, однако за его иронией звучит уже не человеческий, но космический смех - ледяной смех самой вселенной, отстраненно созерцающей суету мясных кукол их собственными глазами.

Эта книга - приглашение к сообщничеству в бесчеловечном заговоре незримых сил, попытка заглянуть на короткий миг в закулисье, где слепой кукловод без устали мастерит все новые и новые пары глаз, одна из которых досталась вам - чтобы наконец посмотреть в его безобразное лицо, и окончательно решить для себя - в нем ли последняя истина мира?

В город присылают нового градоначальника, и вскоре размеренный быт местных жителей превращается в настоящий кошмар. Подлинная тьма проникает в офисные будни обыкновенных клерков, проклятая фабрика начинает производить монстров, а на Землю приходят боги, только люди, вызвавшие их, даже не представляют, с чем имеют дело, и какую метаморфозу им предстоит увидеть. Древние силы и безумие космического ужаса, люди, стоящие перед подлинным мраком вселенной, и бездна, что смотрит на каждого, читающего эти тексты – все это «Ноктуарий» и «Театр гротеска», две книги Томаса Лиготти, одного из самых необычных и оригинальных писателей из тех, что сейчас…

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.

Томас Лиготти – единственный из писателей, работающих в жанре ужасов, кого при жизни издали в престижной серии "Penguin Classics", тем самым официально включив в американский литературный канон. Его часто называют истинным преемником Эдгара По и Говарда Лавкрафта, а его произведения сравнивают с рассказами Франца Кафки, Бруно Шульца и Владимира Набокова. Книги Лиготти повлияли на множество писателей, стали источником вдохновения для первого сезона сериала "Настоящий детектив", послужив основой для монологов Раста Коула в исполнении Мэттью Макконахи. Распадающиеся города, иные пространства, древний и непознаваемый ужас, изысканная проза и раскалывающаяся реальность, в трещинах которой можно разглядеть подлинную тьму бездны – все это рассказы Томаса Лиготти, живой легенды хоррора.

Томас Лиготти – единственный из писателей, работающих в жанре ужасов, кого при жизни издали в престижной серии "Penguin Classics", тем самым официально включив в американский литературный канон. Его часто называют истинным преемником Эдгара По и Говарда Лавкрафта, а его произведения сравнивают с рассказами Франца Кафки, Бруно Шульца и Владимира Набокова. Книги Лиготти повлияли на множество писателей, стали источником вдохновения для первого сезона сериала "Настоящий детектив", послужив основой для монологов Раста Коула в исполнении Мэттью Макконахи. Распадающиеся города, иные пространства, древний и непознаваемый ужас, изысканная проза и…

Старый почтальон Сэмюэл держит Хеллоуин в большой чести, а потому каждый год выставляет для детишек тыкву и готовит мешок со сластями. Некоторые посетители приходят из года в год. И старик даже не представляет, как тесно связан с ними…

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.

Томас Лиготти известен как один из лучших современных авторов хоррора, работающих в короткой форме, и его творчество представлено в основном именно рассказами. Для произведений писателя характерен особый стиль,
сочетающий чёрный юмор и частое использование цитат, преимущественно из различных философских трудов.
Лиготти в своих рассказах уделяет большое внимание проблемам человеческой психологии — анализу явления страха, особенностям индивидуального восприятия окружающей действительности, симптомам психических расстройств и т. д.
Среди авторов, оказавших на него влияние, Лиготти называет Владимира Набокова, Эдгара По, Уильяма Берроуза, Эмиля Чорана, Бруно Шульца и многих других. Критики неоднократно отмечали также влияние на творчество и мировосприятие Лиготти таких писателей, как Франц Кафка, Говард Лавкрафт и Хорхе Луис Борхес.

A literary tribute to a true visionary. David Tibet has been a poet, artist, and musician for over 30 years and has influenced countless other musicians, artists, and authors. In this anthology, those who have been influenced by Tibet and Current 93 try to repay this debt in literary form.

Authors include Thomas Ligotti, Joseph Pulver Sr., Daniel Mills, Michael Griffin, Robert M. Price and lots more.

Noctuary is the third volume of Thomas Ligotti’s horror stories to appear in a revised, definitive edition from Subterranean Press. The first two collections in this series, Songs of a Dead Dreamer (2010; 1986; expanded edition, 1989) and Grimscribe: His Lives and Works (2011; originally published 1991), are now collector’s items. Like its predecessors, Noctuary received numerous plaudits from reviewers upon its initial appearance. According to Library Journal, Noctuary is “another colorful collection of horror stories…which spring on the unsuspecting reader the combination of supernatural characters, natural props, and ‘weird’ circumstanced.” As Booklist observed, “The most disturbing terror comes from within, springs unexpectedly from bland or half-formed memories of the past. This is the terror that Ligotti cultivates in the rich evocative tales of Noctuary…For those willing to immerse themselves in Ligotti’s world, the rewards are great.”

When an interviewer asked Ligotti the derivation of the word “noctuary,” he replied that it was the nocturnal counterpart of “diary,” that is, a journal of what occurs on a nightly timetable rather than during the light of day. Echoing the tenebrous tone of the book’s name are the section titles into which Noctuary is divided—Studies in Shadow, Discourse on Blackness, Notebook of the Night. Shadow, Blackness, Night: these are substance and signification of the themes of Ligotti’s works and the signature of gloom in which they are signed.

New to Noctuary are the terse pieces of the volumes’ third section. Composed of nineteen dreamy entries, Notebook of the Night is a journal—or perhaps only excerpts of a greater work—of insidious exploits, delirious freaks, hymns to the void, esoteric rituals, and carnivals of the abyss. As an introduction to this and the other segments of Noctuary is “In the Night, in the Dark: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction.” Perhaps the reader will fight guidance in the words of this meditation on what separates the aberrant from the norm, the diseased from the wholesome, and the night from the day.

Shivers and spirits... the mystical and macabre... our darkest fears and sweetest fantasies... the fun and frivolity of tricks, treats, festivities, and masquerades. Halloween is a holiday filled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters and adults alike. Celebrate the most magical season of the year with this sensational treasury of seasonal tales - spooky, suspenseful, terrifying, or teasing - harvested from a multitude of master storytellers.

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to the intellectual blackmail that would oblige us to be eternally grateful for a 'gift' we never invited." --From the Foreword by Ray Brassier "The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti's first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti's calm, but…

Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti's first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by the same publishers.

In the view of many commentators, it was with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his reputation as a horror writer of high stature. As Steven J. Mariconda remarked in a 1992 essay surveying the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: "Of the two collections, Grimscribe achieves near-classic status and is recommended to all." Included in this volume is "The Last Feast of Harlequin," a novella that, in the observation of H. P. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi, "may perhaps be the very best homage to Lovecraft ever written."

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then fired, it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable—but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done. This tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H. P. Lovecraft. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque imagination and accomplished prose style. In his stories, Ligotti has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare. The stories collected in Teatro Grottesco feature tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd…

"A fractured mind is often the way into a world not suspected by those of an innocent normality."

Enter the universe of renowned horror master Thomas Ligotti—a universe where clowns take part in a sinister winter festival, a scheming girlfriend makes reality itself come unraveled, a crumbling asylum's destruction unleashes a greater horror, and a mysterious Teatro comes and goes, leaving only shattered dreams in its wake.

In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, Ligotti's sophisticated tales of terror take us to places few would suspect exist, where madness is only a thought away. The Nightmare Factory adapts four of Ligotti's most chilling tales into fine graphic literature by famed writers and artists Stuart Moore, Joe Harris, Colleen Doran (The Sandman), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Ted McKeever (Batman), and Michael Gaydos (Alias). Featuring all-new introductions to each story by Thomas Ligotti.

This is first time the best works of master horror writer Thomas Ligotti have been brought together in a single volume. The title story "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World" is the tale of a small town that is gripped by a kind of existential darkness. Ligotti avoids the explicit violence common in some contemporary fiction, preferring instead to establish an intensely disquieting atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition. Often compared favourably with Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, the "New York Times Book Review" wrote "If there were a literary genre called 'philosophical horror' Thomas Ligotti would easily fit within it".

A longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing his best and most characteristic works.
Thomas Ligotti's stories are perhaps best described as dark magical realism. Many of his stories center on the distorted perspective of a frequently doomed narrator. The title story, "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," reimagines a kind of Bradbury-like small town that encounters the appearance of a kind of existential darkness, written with a sharp imagery like that of William S. Burroughs. In story after story in this collection, Ligotti does not merely present his readers with isolated incidents of supernatural horror - he challenges them to confront nightmares that are entwined in the very fabric of life itself.