Thomas Ligotti
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PRAISE FOR THOMAS LIGOTTI
‘Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and is a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I’d say he might just be a genius. ’
‘Ligotti is wonderfully original; he has a dark vision of a new and special kind, a vision that no one had before him. ’
‘[Ligotti’s] is a unique voice, which speaks with a profound elegance — and a precious seriousness — of matters which few other literary voices have ever touched — Ligotti is old-fashioned in the very best sense of the term and there is nothing dated about his work, which is unmistakably contemporary. ’ Brian Stableford in
‘Ligotti gave me the first genuine frisson — in the literal sense of the term — that I had received in years. His work made me realize why I had become a student of weird fiction to begin with — it was to experience that indescribable sensation of being
‘Ligotti is arguably the pre-eminent living writer of horror fiction. ’ Matt Cardin (in
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‘The most disturbing terror comes from within, springs unexpectedly from bland or half-formed memories of the past. This is the terror that Ligotti cultivates in the richly evocative tales of
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Thomas Ligotti was born in Detroit in 1953 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grosse Pointe Woods. He graduated from Wayne State University in 1978. From 1979 to 2001, Ligotti worked for a reference book publisher in the Detroit area, serving as an editor on such titles as