Songs of a dead dreamer : and Grimscribe

The Resource Songs of a dead dreamer : and Grimscribe
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Songs of a dead dreamer : and Grimscribe
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and Grimscribe
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Thomas Ligotti; Foreword by Jeff VanderMeer
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Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti crafted his own brand of existential horror, which shocks at the deepest levels. In decaying cities and lurid dreams capes tormented by the lunatic pageantry of masks, puppets, and obscure ritual, Ligotti's works lay bare the sickening madness of the human condition. From his dark imagination emerge stories like "The Frolic" and "The Last Feast of Harlequin," waking nightmares that splinter the schemes validating our existence. In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness below-an ordeal from which one may perhaps return, but never to be the same
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Thomas Ligotti was born in Detroit in 1953. Among the most acclaimed horror writers of the past thirty years, .he has received three Bram Stoker Awards, a British Fantasy Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. He lives in South Florida. Jeff Vandermeer is the author of the NYT bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). He is athree-time World Fantasy Award winner.
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Twelfth Grade and over
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novels
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general

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