Dagon #22/23

[Dr. Bantham]

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	Publisher: |Dagon Press Publication Date: |September 1988 Format: |Magazine Issue: |22/23 Country: |Great Britain Language: |English Cover Artist: |Allen Kozsowski Cover Artist: |Harry O. Morris Illustrator: |Harry O. Morris Illustrator: |Dave Carson Illustrator: |Jeffrey Salmon

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[table="head;width=100%"]Title|Author|Page|Pages Editorial|Carl T. Ford|4|1 The Knave of Darkness|Mike Ashley|7|3 Beyond Dualism|Christine Morris|10|3 The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book|Robert M. Price|13|4 Nothing is What It Seems to Be|Stefan R. Dziemianowicz|17|10 Autumn Horror|Thomas Ligotti|29|1 Notes on the Writing of Horror|Carl T. Ford|30|6 The Library of Byzantium|Thomas Ligotti|37|9 In a City of Bells and Towers|Mark Morrison|47|6 Oneiric Horror|Thomas Ligotti|55|2 The Lost Art of Twilight|Simon MacCulloch|57|12 A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography|Thomas Ligotti|8|42

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[Nemonymous]

Also in the contents is 'The Red Brain's Trust' by my old friend Peter F Jeffery, in which is mentioned the name of Mark Samuels!

 

[MadsPLP]

Does anyone know how much one is required to pay this item these days?

I'm currently writing my BA in comparative literature about Ligotti, and there are a few of the texts in this that I don't own.

 

[the_havoc_man]

Does anyone know how much one is required to pay this item these days?

I'm currently writing my BA in comparative literature about Ligotti, and there are a few of the texts in this that I don't own.

I always see a copy of that Dagon as well as issue 21 that has one story by Ligotti listed on Ebay. You could try your luck there.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

I'm currently writing my BA in comparative literature about Ligotti, and there are a few of the texts in this that I don't own.

MadsPLP, a caveat if you should secure a copy of Dagon #22/23. The issue contains quotations from the first edition of Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1985). A revised and expanded edition of SOADD was published in 1989. With the exception of two pieces, this version appeared again in The Nightmare Factory (1996). As a hopelessly driven quoter of Thomas Ligotti, I can vouch for the unreliability of Dagon #22/23's texts as definitive. The author's preferred texts appear in the latter versions. Cling to those.

 

[The Silent One]

Nonetheless, it's a fine article to possess... Decent if impossible-to-run CoC scenario therein, too.

 

[MadsPLP]

I'm currently writing my BA in comparative literature about Ligotti, and there are a few of the texts in this that I don't own.

MadsPLP, a caveat if you should secure a copy of Dagon #22/23. The issue contains quotations from the first edition of Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1985). A revised and expanded edition of SOADD was published in 1989. With the exception of two pieces, this version appeared again in The Nightmare Factory (1996). As a hopelessly driven quoter of Thomas Ligotti, I can vouch for the unreliability of Dagon #22/23's texts as definitive. The author's preferred texts appear in the latter versions. Cling to those.

Thanks to you and to everyone else who answered. It is not as much for the Ligotti stories I'm interested in the Dagon issue, but more because there is a secondary text on The Lost Art of Twilight (and other secondary texts?) included, which wasn't in TLR. I've never held TLAOT to be one of Ligotti's best stories, quite the contrary, but I do need as much literary criticism of Ligotti as I can get.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

MadsPLP, Dagon #22/23 contains five nonfiction pieces of criticism/appreciation of Thomas Ligotti's works (through 1988). The full title of Simon MacCulloch's article is "The Lost Art of Twilight": Two Aspects of the Vampire. There is also an interview with Thomas Ligotti conducted by Carl T. Ford and (as The Silent One notes) a Crypt Of Cthulhu role playing game scenario by Mark Morrison. Mr. Ligotti himself gives us "The Library of Byzantium," "Autumn Horror," "Oneiric Horror," and "A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography." This magazine is well worth tracking down, both as a curio and as a source of fine criticism and artwork.

 

[Nemonymous]

Thanks, Dr B, for creating a new style for TLO called 'Dagon'. You have captured the style of that old mag, perfectly, I feel.
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[Odalisque]

Also in the contents is 'The Red Brain's Trust' by my old friend Peter F Jeffery, in which is mentioned the name of Mark Samuels!

Seeing this thread for the first time, this morning, I was thinking much the same myself.

 

[traumlied]

Well, I have one for sale, in excellent condition (Godamn crisis in Portugal). Here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dagon-22-23-Thomas-Ligotti-Special-Double-Issue-/380451436072?pt=Magazines&hash=item5894ac3628