Teatro Grottesco Hardcover | Pages: 312 pages

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Original Title:	Teatro grottesco
ISBN:	0978991176 (ISBN13: 9780978991173)
Edition Language:	English

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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.

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Title	:	Teatro Grottesco
Author	:	Thomas Ligotti
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 312 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2007 by Mythos Books LLC (first published September 1997)
Categories	:	Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Weird Fiction

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Ligotti gets compared to those other masters of the horror short Poe and Lovecraft and he obviously loves their tales of deranged minds, half glimpsed horrors, and nihilism. The opening line of The Clown Puppet seems a wonderful parody of a Lovecraft opening. Ligottis true muses are actually Bruno Shultz and Thomas Bernhard. Fans of those writers should run not walk to the store/library to snatch up Ligotti before he vanishes into out of print limbo. Using Bernhards repetition and comic disgust

"His trembling words also invoked an epistimology of 'hope and horror', of exposing once and for all the true nature of this 'great gray ritual of existence' and plunging headlong into an 'enlightenment of inanity'..."- "In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land"reading the collected tales in Thomas' Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco over the course of a rainy, gray day and the rest of a chilly, glum weekend was an interesting experience. it certainly helped to create a gray, glum, and introspective mood,

sometimes i come upon books or stories that make me question the nature of reality; that make me wonder about the possibility of other realms of existence, other ways of seeing or living or being, etc. but reading ligotti, i often get the sense that not only do these things absolutely exist, but that ligotti is speaking to me-- directly to me personally-- from that other realm, through the medium of this book, this story, as though taunting me to step forward and enter that place with him. it is

October Spooky Read #1! Ive even come to believe that the world itself, by its very nature, is unendurable. Its only our responses to this fact that deviate: mine being predominantly a response of passive terror approaching absolute panic; yours being predominantly a response of gruesome obsession that you fear you might act upon. Thomas Ligotti is one of those authors I kept meaning to read, as his reputation as a writer of wonderfully creepy stories is impossible to ignore: it is no small

"And no matter what I say cannot resist or betray it. No one could do so because there is no one here. There is only this body, this shadow, this darkness."I remember picking this one up several years ago, and reading the first story Purity, and putting it down for reasons I can't really describe without feeling a bit ashamed...Obviously, I did't get it; I wasn't ready, and I had better things to do like picking up "better" books... and by "better" I mean the ones that could be interesting to

It's entirely unsurprising to learn that Thomas Ligotti is from Detroit. His storytelling is suffused in a certain distinctly post-industrial sense of destruction and despair. This context is especially prevalent in the neighborhood descriptions of opening tour-de-force "Purity" which shoves several disquieting philosophical principles through a slalom of screwed-up events, ranging from explicit action to entirely sub-narrative suggestions. All told in the conversational voice of an eerily

Bizarre, dark and delicious with eau de Lovecraft generously splashed at all the right pulse points. The stories are neatly subdivided and labelled to give a gentle steer: Derangements, Deformations and the Damaged and the Diseased, just in case I (e.g. the reader) dont get it. Helping hand appreciated, but not necessary. The delineation of stories based on theme and structure is practically pock-marked. Derangements is a powerhouse of the uniquely bizarre: unspecified locales, structured on