Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

Or so says black metal artist Jute Gyte/Adam Kalmbach, after a fashion:

FULL INTERVIEW: "Cosmic Pessimism: An Interview with Jute Gyte"

My response to this at the moment is summed up by a monosyllabic "Ummm..."

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

This is what inevitably happens when philosophy becomes the main judge of art.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

I think Conspiracy... pales in comparison to much of Ligotti's fiction.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

I like to consider TCATR's relationship with the fiction the same way I consider Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Nietzche's other works. They may be the total of the equation (not quite so in Zarathustra's case but close), but the sum is nothing without the numbers and the operations.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

I felt like Clark Ashton Smith's stories paled in comparison to his poetry when I seriously delved into it.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

"Conspiracy" is the one work of Ligotti's that (to me) screamed for better editing. Not so with his works of fiction.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

Let's admit, it was kind of an organizational mess.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

TCATHR is, of course, a very, very good book, but there are things in Ligotti's fiction that you won't find in it. For example, clowns that shapeshift into giant flesh-eating worms. And IMO clowns that shapeshift into giant flesh-eating worms trumps philosophy any day.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

Agreed.

Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
 

I think Jute Gyte are really good and surprised he wouldn't appreciate this sort of imagery more.