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2015•448 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Songs of a dead dreamer and Grimscribe

4.5/ 5
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Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of human consciousness. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.

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First Published

2015

Pages

448 pages

Rating

4.5 / 5

Ratings

2

Editions

1

Publisher

Penguin Books

Language

ENG

Status

Published

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