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“They are slaves to the moral miseries of their humanness--they are all deliberation and no liberation! Idiots, they mourn the extinction of their beauties and their loves--their pitiful vices--as if these were anything but futile illusions. And such illusions only breed other, more horrible, fantasies: pain, isolation, and ultimate annihilation.”
Thomas Ligotti - “The Real Wolf”

TCATHR Extract "Thinking Horror" Published in COLLAPSE Volume IV
Jun 15, 2008 - 10:46 AM - by Dr. Bantham
Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror' is now available for sale online. This volume is published as a limited edition of 1000 copies only.

Collapse IV features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into Concept-Horror. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique volume continues Collapse's pursuit of indisciplinary miscegenation, the wide-ranging contributions interacting to produce common themes and suggestive connections. In the process a rich and compelling case emerges for the intimate bond between horror and philosophical thought.

In The Shadow of a Puppet-Dance, James Trafford tracks weird fiction writer Thomas Ligotti's anticipation of the radical thesis of neurophilosopher Thomas Metzinger's book Being No-One: namely, that 'nobody ever was or had a self'.

In Thomas Ligotti's own contribution to the volume, Thinking Horror (an extract from his forthcoming non-fiction work The Conspiracy Against the Human Race), he takes up the work of obscure Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe, among others, to take an unflinching journey into the depths of pessimistic thought.

As a counterpoint to Ligotti's deflation of human hubris, Oleg Kulik, the internationally-acclaimed Russian contemporary artist known for his disturbing investigations into the borders between life and death, human and animal, contributes his photographic series Memento Mori: Dead Monkeys.
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NIGHTMARE FACTORY Graphic Novel - Volume Two (Cover & Contents)
May 03, 2008 - 3:17 PM - by Dr. Bantham
Cover art for THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY - Volume Two (Graphic Novel) has been made available. I am not certain if this is the final artwork, however.

The big news is that the stories to be included are:
  • "The Chymist"
  • "The Clown Puppet"
  • "Gas Station Carnivals"
  • "The Sect of the Idiot"
The book is available for pre-ordering at Amazon.
The current release date is listed as September 2, 2008.
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Virgin Books to Publish Paperback Edition of TEATRO GROTTESCO
May 03, 2008 - 9:41 AM - by Dr. Bantham
Virgin Books Ltd is scheduled to release a paperback edition of TEATRO GROTTESCO. This book is currently available for pre-order from Amazon UK.

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Ligotti follows the literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe: portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare. Just by entering his unique world where odd little towns and dark sectors are peopled with clowns, manikins and hideous puppets, and where tormented individuals and blackly comical eccentrics play out their doom, is to risk your own vision of the world.

Synopsis from Amazon.com
Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H. P. Lovecraft. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque imagination and accomplished prose style. In his stories, Ligotti has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare.The stories collected in "Teatro Grottesco" feature tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns for which Ligotti is noted as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the fiction of Thomas Ligotti.
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