Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer

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Thomas Ligotti – Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Silver Scarab Press, 1985, Limited Edition, 300 copies, posted edition Carroll & Graff, 1991)

Content:

Ramsey Campbell - Introduction (1985)

DREAMS FOR SLEEPWALKERS:
The Frolic (1982)
Les Fleurs (1981)
Alice's Last Adventure (1985)
Dream of a Mannikin (1982)
The Nyctalops Trilogy:
1: The Chymist (1981)
2: Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes (1982)
3: Eye of the Lynx (1983)
Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story (1985)

DREAMS FOR INSOMNIACS:

The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise (1983)
The Lost Art of Twilight (1986)
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss (1985)
Masquerade of a Dead Sword (1986)
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech (1983)
Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror (1985)

DREAMS FOR THE DEAD.

Dr. Locrian's Asylum (1987)
The Sect of the Idiot (1988)
The Greater Festival of Masks (1985)
The Music of the Moon (1987)
The Journal of J. P. Drapeau (1987)
Vastarien (1987)


This is the first of Ligotti's collections. The later editions drop one story from the 1985 Silver Scarab edition, and adds ten more stories.

A lot of the material was published first in the small press.