The Thomas Ligotti Reader
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The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays and Explorations is a collection of essays on American horror writer Thomas Ligotti and his works, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in trade paperback in April 2003 by Wildside Press, with a hardcover edition from the same publisher following in July of the same year.
The book consists of thirteen essays by various authors, including one by Ligotti himself, together with a bibliography of Ligotti's published works.
Contents
- "Thomas Ligotti's Career of Nightmares" (Matt Cardin)
- "Weird Tales Talks with Thomas Ligotti" (Darrell Schweitzer)
- "The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book" (Robert M. Price)
- "Nothing is What it Seems to Be" (Stefan R. Dziemianowicz)
- "Disillusionment can be Glamorous: an Interview with Thomas Ligotti" (E.M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner)
- "The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's 'Nethescurial'" (Matt Cardin)
- "The Dark Beauty of Unheard of Horrors" (Thomas Ligotti)
- "Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World'" (Matt Cardin)
- "Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil: Thomas Ligotti and the Post-Industrial English Underground" (William Burns)
- "Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti" (David Tibet)
- "The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: a Study of 'In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land'" (Ben P. Indick)
- "Ligotti's Corporate Horror" (Darrell Schweitzer)
- "Thomas Ligotti: Escape from Life" (S.T. Joshi)
- "A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography" (Douglas Anderson)
External links
- The Thomas Ligotti Reader title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Entry at Wildside Press
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Works by Darrell Schweitzer
- The Shattered Goddess (1983)
- The White Isle (1989)
- The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995)
- The Dragon House (2018)
- We Are All Legends (1981)
- Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985)
- Transients (1993)
- Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
- Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999)
- Nightscapes (2000)
- The Great World and the Small (2001)
- Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer (2004)
- Living with the Dead (2008)
- Deadly Things (2011)
- Echoes of the Goddess (2013)
- The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013)
- The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013)
- Awaiting Strange Gods (2015)
- The Mysteries of the Faceless King (2020)
- The Last Heretic (2020)
- The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens (2023)
- Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1987)
- Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989)
- The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
- The Neil Gaiman Reader (2006)
- The Secret History of Vampires (2007)
- The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010)
- Full Moon City (2010)
- Cthulhu's Reign (2010)
- That is Not Dead (2015)
- Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (2017)
- Mountains of Madness Revealed (2019)
- Shadows Out of Time (2023)
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