Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grim
scribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Infl
uenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity o
f Kafka, Ligotti crafted his own brand of existential horror, which shocks at th
e deepest levels. In decaying cities and lurid dreams capes tormented by the lun
atic pageantry of masks, puppets, and obscure ritual, Ligotti's works lay bare t
he sickening madness of the human condition.
