New Ligotti website (or actually webpage)

I recently dived into Squidoo and created Muses, Daimons, and Geniuses, a "lens" (Squidoo's proprietary title for the free subject-centered pages they let you create) to serve as an adjunct to my new blog about daimonic creativity and consciousness, Demon Muse.

Four or five days ago I got a wild hair and realized, hey, since Squidoo is all free, I can use it to indulge some of my other interests.

The first and maybe last result of this impulse is a fairly substantial Ligotti page, titled simply Thomas Ligotti, that I've put quite a bit of time and effort into writing, building, and tweaking. Consider it a younger, smaller, and more streamlined cousin of TLO.

It goes without saying that all comments and suggestions are welcome.

Good show, on both accounts! The Ligotti page in particular will be useful for helping explain to friends what I am always prattling on about... Well done, Mr. Cardin.

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Great Yog, Matt! Excellent (and informative) page! Between it and today's walk down Ligotti-memory lane, I'm personally buzzing with Nethescurialian musings.

Quick note: TLO was also the first publisher of MWINYD as well as a handful of previously early and uncollected Ligotti stories. Also, the FIRST Ligotti website I'm aware of was Leon D. Wild's "Library of Dead Dreams."

Many thanks!

Thank you, Matt! This is absolutely awesome.

Dr. Locrian said:

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Also, the FIRST Ligotti website I'm aware of was Leon D. Wild's "Library of Dead Dreams."

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Hey, I remember exhuming that website a few years ago thanks to wayback machine. In fact, I just found out I can still do it!

Library of Dead Dreams: a Thomas Ligotti page

Thank you Matt. Good job.

Thank you all for the positive feedback.

Sam: I think you have correctly intuited my purpose. I'm looking to create a resource that resides somewhere between the Wikipedia article and TLO. More substantial than the former and more geared to hooking the uninitiated, but quicker and easier to digest in its entirety than TLO -- to which I'm hoping it will guide people.

Jon: Thank you for pointing out my omissions. In fact I knew I was omitting some info; by the time I finished writing and conceptually organizing everything, I just wanted to get it published and then fill in a few gaps. And you've now done some of the work of pointing out where those chinks and holes are. Thank you!

Phil: Many thanks for the Wayback link. I am 1) a big fan of this feature at the Internet Archive, 2) a very fond rememberer of Leon's Library of Dead Dreams, and 3) shocked that when I was planning my Ligotti page I didn't think of linking to #1's record of #2. Excellent!

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Phil: Many thanks for the Wayback link. I am 1) a big fan of this feature at the Internet Archive, 2) a very fond rememberer of Leon's Library of Dead Dreams, and 3) shocked that when I was planning my Ligotti page I didn't think of linking to #1's record of #2. Excellent!

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Matt, it is Slawek who deserves credit for the Wayback Machine link. If I had a Wayback Machine of my own, I would have gone back and killed a grandfather long ago. But I'm still here, alas...

Ah, hell. Sorry about that, Phil and Slawek. I've known your respective TLO avatars/incarnations for years now, but still somehow managed to blow a brain fuse.

Oh, for that Wayback Machine...

Oooh, just had an idea that you may or may not like, Matt. How about linking to the old alt.books.thomas-ligotti google group archive? I know for many years it's been simply a spam receptacle, but there's some real gold buried there.

Hmm. I wonder if I can create a time delimited archive link...

That's an excellent idea, Jon. I'm definitely planning to make the changes / incorporate the info you mentioned previously. Linking to alt.books.thomas-ligotti would be excellent, too.

A simple way to manage the content for quality purposes would be for me to create a separate module / page section for the newsgroup posts, and then to dig through past conversation threads to find the best among them, and just link to them manually.

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A simple way to manage the content for quality purposes would be for me to create a separate module / page section for the newsgroup posts, and then to dig through past conversation threads to find the best among them, and just link to them manually.

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Excellent! I've got to admit, digging through those old posts--which I've done now and then over the past couple of weeks--is great fun and is educational! Let me know if you need any help with this.

I know that I have been a TLOer for many years. I am pretty sure that when Brian set up this new site (ported it over to a new board?) in 2005, it changed the dates on some of the older posts. My first post went unanswered (and is still unanswered!) so I know I didn't post again for many months. But eventually I got so annoying that people were forced to deal with me.

I also used to belong to a Ligotti Yahoo Group (I think it was Yahoo) that used to send me e-mails, and I responded to a few of those too. Those, I am sure, have been lost in the ether. I am sometimes curious about how long ago it was when I started TLOing.

Anyway, I would love to see what you guys can dig up from the past.

Know what's funny, bendk? That Ligotti yahoo group is fully intact (you can find it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tlo! I'm the group owner. In fact, there are over 200 member emails still active (i.e., not bouncing). And, believe it or not, there are a whopping 2,638 messages posted to it over the course of many years! I actually sent an email to the list a couple of weeks ago directing folks to TLO for the site's anniversary. May be time to dig for gold there as well...