The Noctuary's Mannikins

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I already floated the idea of The Ligotti Reader 2. How about The Grimscribe's Puppets 2? It might be a little early for such a project - it's been almost 12 years since Joseph S. Pulver Sr. put together the original tribute anthology to Ligotti- but it is fun to speculate as to its possible contributors.

Here is the Table of Contents to the original volume:

“Furnace” by Livia Llewellyn
“The Lord Came at Twilight” by Daniel Mills
“The Secrets of the Universe” by Michael Cisco
“The Human Moth” by Kaaron Warren
“Basement Angels” by Joel Lane
“No Signal” by Darrell Schweitzer
“The Xenambulist: A Fable in Four Acts” by Robin Spriggs
“The Company Town” by Nicole Cushing
“The Man Who Escaped This Story” by Cody Goodfellow
“Pieces of Blackness” by Michael Kelly
“The Blue Star” by Eddie M. Angerhuber
“20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism” by Jon Padgett
“Diamond Dust” by Mike Griffin
“After the Final” by Richard Gavin
“Eyes Exchange Bank” by Scott Nicolay
“By Invisible Hands” by Simon Strantzas
“Where We Will All Be” by Paul Tremblay
“Gailestis” by Ally Bird
“The Prosthesis” by Jeff Thomas
“Into the Darkness, Fearlessly” by John Langan
“Oubliette” by Gemma Files

Who would you like to see in the new one?

 

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I was thinking maybe Brian Evenson and Gary J. Shipley. Both are fine fiction writers. Shipley shares a similar philosophical pessimism with Ligotti. He also cites him in both an article about True Detective Season One and His book On the Verge of Nothing. Evenson cited Ligotti and Zapffe at the beginning of his novel Immobility. I asked ChatGPT if there was any other connection. It stated yes, and brought to my attention that Evenson contributed a short story "Tilberi" to Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 6, Issue 1 . On my to-read list.