Their limited availability has made for some rather insane prices in the used market-I myself once happily paid $60 for a used copy of Noctuary and, in all fairness, would likely do the same again.Īs part of his mystique, his inaccessibility over the years has been somewhat maddening. For most of his career, Ligotti has published only small runs of collections published by small houses. It takes a certain kind of reader to be gripped by the works of Ligotti, but even supposing that you’re the kind of reader who would partake in his brand of existential horror, there exists yet another block: availability. He has, for most of his career, existed in the shadows. The path to Ligotti is circuitous, beset by roadblocks and warnings, sign posts that warn the undiscerning that here there be monsters. Thomas Ligotti hasn’t done much to, as they say, put himself out there to be widely consumed by the masses. You couldn’t be blamed if you had never heard the name of one of the modern era’s foremost writers of uncanny and supernatural horror.
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