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The Thomas Ligotti Reader
The Thomas Ligotti Reader edited by Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003
Author	Darrell Schweitzer (editor)
Language	English
Genre	Essays
Publisher	Wildside Press
Publication date	2003
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	188
ISBN	1-59224-130-1
OCLC	52763989

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.

"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

v t e Works by Darrell Schweitzer
Novels	The Shattered Goddess (1983) The White Isle (1989) The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995) The Dragon House (2018)
Short story collections	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)
As editor	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)

v t e Thomas Ligotti
Short stories	"Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie" (1986) "The Glamour" (1991) "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World" (1991)
Story collections	Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1985) Grimscribe: His Lives and Works (1991) My Work Is Not Yet Done (2002) Teatro Grottesco (2006)
Other works	Horror on the Orient Express (1991 RPG campaign) The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010 essay collection)
Adaptations	"I Have a Special Plan for This World" (2000 song) The Nightmare Factory (2007 comic book) The Nightmare Factory: Volume 2 (2008 comic book)
Miscellaneous	The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003 anthology)

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