Thomas Ligotti  

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Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is a contemporary American horror writer. His writings have been noted as being rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have overall been described by many critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction is pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction."

Bibliography

• Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1985, rev. & exp. 1989)
• Grimscribe: His Lives and Works (1991)
• Noctuary (1994)
• The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales (1994)
• The Nightmare Factory (1996). Essentially an omnibus of selections from Ligotti's first three collections, with a concluding section containing new stories.
• In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land (1997, accompanying CD by Current 93)
• I Have a Special Plan for This World (2000, accompanying CD by Current 93)
• This Degenerate Little Town (2001, accompanying CD by Current 93)
• The Unholy City (2002, accompanying CD by Current 93)
• My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror (2002)
• Crampton: A Screenplay (2003, with Brandon Trenz) Template:Small
• Sideshow, and Other Stories (2003)
• Death Poems (2004)
• The Shadow at the Bottom of the World (2005)
• Teatro Grottesco (2006, reprinted in 2008)
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010)
• The Spectral Link (2014)
• Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (2014), edited by Matt Cardin
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe (2015)

Adaptations

Graphic novels

• The Nightmare Factory (2007)
• The Nightmare Factory – Volume 2 (2008)