This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of Thomas Ligotti.

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then fired, it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable--but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done. This tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

Two terrifying classics by the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.
Ligotti s stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from...

Debutová sbírka povídek jednoho z největších současných autorů weird fiction, velmistra hororového žánru, spisovatele, který od osmdesátých let minulého století spřádá podivné příběhy, v nichž z nočních můr vystupuje iracionalita existence. Ligottiho svět obývají posedlé postavy všemožných doktorů, umělců, profesorů, psychiatrů a psychopatů, protagonisté žijící v omšelých anonymních městech s pokřivenými domy a ulicemi a pohybující se v těžko postižitelné groteskní sféře, kterou sdílí s figurínami, loutkami a bytostmi, u nichž si...