The scientific references in a Lovecraft story are not here.
The revelation at the end of a Ligotti story is rarely so specific.Īnd their prose differs. In one of his stories, the horrific revelation is one of man’s hidden evolutionary past, miscegenation in a family’s past, the existence of alien races. Yet, that horror is expressed in vaguer and more general terms than in Lovecraft. Yet, the pre-eminent, most important aspect of Lovecraft’s work, “cosmic horror”, the “infinite terror and dreariness” of existence, as one story here puts it, is shared by Ligotti. There are no explicit Lovecraftian allusions in this collection – no references to the forbidden books, nightmare locations, and mysterious entities created by Lovecraft and those adding to the Mythos. Is Ligotti a Lovecraftian writer? Well, based on this collection – and I have no idea how representative it is – yes and no. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, I bought this anthology. Impressed enough by the Ligotti work I’ve seen in anthologies devoted to following up on H. Review: Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti, 2007. It’s one of my more popular reviews, so I might as well reproduce it in whole.
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