In 2015, Ligotti's first two collections, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, were republished in one volume by Penguin Classics as Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. He was contributing editor to Grimoire from 1982 to 1985. Ligotti started his professional writing career in the early 1980s with short stories published in American small press magazines.
The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction." Career The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror writer. Horror fiction, weird fiction, dark fantasy
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