Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti

[jonathan122]

Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti (Durtro 2006; Virgin 2008)

Derangements
Purity
The Town Manager
Sideshow, and Other Stories
The Clown Puppet
The Red Tower

Deformations
My Case for Retributive Action
Our Temporary Supervisor
In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land:
- His Shadow Shall Rise to a Higher House
- The Bells Will Sound Forever
- A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing
- When You Hear the Singing, You Will Know it is Time

The Damaged and the Diseased
Teatro Grottesco
Gas Station Carnivals
The Bungalow House
Severini
The Shadow, the Darkness

The Durtro edition apparently comes with a section of Ligotti's poetry, which I haven't read and probably wouldn't be able to judge even if I had. The stories in this collection are excellent, and often extremely funny, which isn't necessarily an adjective I would have applied to a lot of Ligotti's earlier fiction. My personal favourites included "Purity", "The Town Manager", "The Clown Puppet" and "The Bungalow House", but really it's all pretty great.

[benedictjjones]

i picked this up earlier in the year while visiting the missus' family in the midlands. great stuff! it may say strange but i felt as people who read poe at the time must have felt. really enjoyed a lot of the stories in this and it really made me think about the boundaries of horror.

[weirdmonger]

For any interested, my review of this book is here:
weirdmonger.blog-city.com/teatro_grottesco_by_thomas_ligotti.htm

[lemming13]

I'm sort of hovering about Ligotti myself; possibly it's because I find his work a bit too disturbing. But I heartily recommend the graphic collections of his stories, The Nightmare Factory Vols 1 and 2. Ligotti was closely involved with them, and the artwork complements the stories exceptionally well.