The limited edition hardcover of the previously released trade paperback.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. The book also includes a recent, unpublished interview with the author.
Contents:
Foreword by Douglas A. Anderson
* Introduction: "Horror Stories: A Nightmare Scenario" by Thomas Ligotti
* "The Last Feast of Harlequin"
* "Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech"
* "Alice's Last Adventure"
* "Vastarien"
* "Dr. Locrian's Asylum"
* "The Mystics of Muelenburg"
* "The Spectacles in the Drawer"
* "The Strange Design of Master Rignolo"
* "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World"
* "Nethescurial"
* "The Cocoons"
* "The Tsalal"
* "The Bungalow House"
* "Teatro Grottesco"
* "The Red Tower"
* "Purity"
