Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti was an American writer (born 1953). He was born at Detroit.

Thomas Ligotti in brief

Born
1953
Known for
writer
Place of birth
Detroit
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Formation and teaching

Thomas Ligotti studied at Wayne State University and Macomb Community College. His recorded influences include William S. Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov and H. P. Lovecraft.

Recognition and collections

Thomas Ligotti received British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology or Collection, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.

Catalogued works

75 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection.

Songs of a Dead Dreamer. The Shadow at the Bottom of the World. Teatro Grottesco. The Glamour. Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie. My Work Is Not Yet Done. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works. Noctuary. The Spectral Link. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. The Medusa. Conversations in a Dead Language. The Prodigy of Dreams. Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel. The Tsalal. Mad Night of Atonement. The Strange Design of Master Rignolo. The Voice in the Bones. The Frolic. Les Fleurs. Alice's Last Adventure. Dream of a Manikin. Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes. The Chymist. Eye of the Lynx. Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story. The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise. The Lost Art of Twilight. The Troubles of Dr. Thoss. Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech. Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror. Dr. Locrian's Asylum. The Sect of the Idiot. The Greater Festival of Masks. The Music of the Moon. The Journal of J. P. Drapeau. Vastarien. The Last Feast of Harlequin. The Spectacles in the Drawer. Flowers of the Abyss. Darkness. A Whisper of Blood: Stories of Vampirism. Заговор против рода человеческого. The Book of Cthulhu. Lovecraft's Monsters. The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2. Halloween. The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. A Lovecraft Retrospective. La conspiración contra la especie humana. Michigan Basement. Death Poems. Weird Tales #353. Grimscribe. Canciones de un soñador muerto. The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein. Paradoxes from Helll. Noctuary & the Spectral Link. The nightmare factory. 25th Anniversay Edition BEST NEW HORROR #1 [Trade Paperback] Edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell. The Thomas Ligotti Reader. Crampton. Nottuario. Weird Tales #325. Hayalperest Ölünün Şarkıları. Born to Fear. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Lib/E. Weird Tales #327. Weird Tales 333. In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land. Harry O. Morris. Collapse. Prime Evil. A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. There is a graveyard that dwells in man / selected by David Tibet., dated 2020, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Entre las grietas de lo extraño: Thomas Ligotti y el irrealismo macabro, Cartaphilus, 2024. Thomas Ligotti, Weird Mysticism, 2020. Thomas Ligotti: los delirios de una mente rota, Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2013. The Visceropoetics of Horror: Abdominal Crisis, Surgical Trauma, and Gastrointestinal Torment in Thomas Ligotti, CounterText, 2024. Ask the Puppet. Towards Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 2011. La fabbrica oscura: Poiesi delle forme weird in The Red Tower di Thomas Ligotti, Kaiak, 2022. Thomas Ligotti: los delirios de una mente rota, Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2013. Los cuentos del gusano. Verdad, evolución y antinatalismo en la ficción de lo extraño de H. P. Lovecraft y Thomas Ligotti, Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana, 2026. Metafísica de la negrura. Schopenhauer, Mainländer y Nietzsche en la literatura de Thomas Ligotti, Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

12 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

The Nightmare Factory (2014) - Thomas Ligotti (2014) — Internet Archive. In Heaven, Everything Is Fine- Fiction Inspired By David Lynch ; Edited By Cameron Pierce ( 2013) - Thomas Ligotti; John Skipp; Amelia Gray; David J; Blake Butler (2013) — Internet Archive. Grimscribe His Lives And Works (1991) - Thomas Ligotti (1991) — Internet Archive. Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (2013) - Thomas Ligotti (2013) — Internet Archive. Pictures Of Apocalypse - Thomas Ligotti; Jonathan Dennison — Internet Archive. Thomas Ligotti & Current 93 - This Degenerate Little Town (2001) — Internet Archive. The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 1 Thomas Ligotti; Stuart Moore; Colleen Doran; Ben Templesmith; Joe Harris; Ted Mckeever; Michael Gaydos — Internet Archive. The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti (2010) — Internet Archive. The Collected Short Fiction (2012) - Thomas Ligotti (2012) — Internet Archive. The Conspiracy Against The Human Race — Internet Archive. Thomas Ligotti Books Collection — Internet Archive. The Nightmare Factory — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 21 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Thomas Ligotti studied at Wayne State University and Macomb Community College. the recorded working language is English.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are horror. William S. Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov and H. P. Lovecraft are recorded as an influence.

Distinctions recorded are British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology or Collection, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.

Chronology

  1. 1953Thomas Ligotti born at Detroit.
  2. 1991Grimscribe His Lives And Works (1991) - Thomas Ligotti digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 2001Thomas Ligotti & Current 93 - This Degenerate Little Town digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 2013In Heaven, Everything Is Fine- Fiction Inspired By David Lynch ; Edited By Cameron Pierce ( 2013) - Thomas Ligotti; John Skipp; Amelia Gray; David J; Blake Butler digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 2013Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (2013) - Thomas Ligotti digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 2014The Nightmare Factory (2014) - Thomas Ligotti digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Thomas Ligotti”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1062799: Thomas Ligotti

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