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The Shadow at The Bottom of The World

By Thomas Ligotti

Book information

Publisher
Cold Spring Press
Year
2005
ISBN
1593600585, 9781593600587
Open Library ID
OL8873695M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
681 kB (697244 bytes)
Pages
\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This is first time the best works of master horror writer Thomas Ligotti have been brought together in a single volume. The title story "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World" is the tale of a small town that is gripped by a kind of existential darkness. Ligotti avoids the explicit violence common in some contemporary fiction, preferring instead to establish an intensely disquieting atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition. Often compared favourably with Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, the "New York Times Book Review" wrote "If there were a literary genre called 'philosophical horror' Thomas Ligotti would easily fit within it".

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