"Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. "Aficianados of the macabre consider Ligotti one of the finest writers in the field" - The Sunday Times "Ligotti is wonderfully original he has a new vision of a dark and special kind, a vision that no one had before him." - Interzone "The best new American writer of weird fiction to appear in years" - The Washington Post In story after story in this collection, Ligotti does not merely present his readers with isolated incidents of supernatural horror - he challenges them to confront nightmares that are entwined in the very fabric of life itself. The title story, "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," reimagines a kind of Bradbury-like small town that encounters the appearance of a kind of existential darkness, written with a sharp imagery like that of William S. Many of his stories center on the distorted perspective of a frequently doomed narrator. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing his best and most characteristic works.Thomas Ligotti's stories are perhaps best described as dark magical realism. A longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers.
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