Noctuary
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786702354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
""A man awakens in the darkness"" according to H. Grove (errantdreams). Thomas Ligotti is a truly unusual author. He has a fascination with "weird fiction," with the unknowable, the macabre. This is paired with a knack for eloquent word-poetry, intelligence and complexity, and a sense of the chillingly unusual. When I finish reading several Ligotti stories, I find that the world looks different. The colors aren't quite right any more, or the angles, or maybe people seem a little darker, a little stranger.I have several book. Some of the most disturbing prose ever written. Ligotti is undoubtedly the only living master of terror.The truth is that Thomas Ligotti has come out of seemingly nowhere in just the last ten years andhas, in that time, set a new standard in literature of the supernatural. I picked up _Songs_ in 1992, initially for the Washington Post's declaration, "Put this on the bookshelf between Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft where it belongs." My hopes were more than realized. Ligotti is not only as good as. "A true artist" according to A Customer. Thomas Ligotti is easily one of the least known masters of modern fiction. His work transcends genre and his prose is most often poetic, his imagery haunting and atmospheric. For fans of any type of literature, Thomas Ligotti is a rare gem and a great talent in the field, though sometimes a difficult read, his work is always rewarding.This book preceeded his most recent work, "In a foreign town, in a foreign land" and his one of his best collections to
According to Library Journal, Noctuary is 'another colorful collection of horror storieswhich spring on the unsuspecting reader the combination of supernatural characters, natural props, and 'weird' circumstanced. 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. This is the terror that Ligotti cultivates in the rich evocative tales of Noct
Three good tales are "The Medusa," which tells of a scholar obsessed with the Gorgon whom Perseus apparently did not kill; "Mrs. In the foreword, the author explains that they fall in the category of "weird fiction," that is, extreme gothic horror, featuring macabre endings and unremitting doom. Rinaldi's Angel," a tale that lends new meaning to the term "bad dreams"; and the novella-length "The Tsalal," a gothic work of demonic prophecy that boasts a gruesome ending. Nevertheless, as gothic tales, a