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Hi, I am posting this all over, and forgive me for the repetition. My name is Mike Aronovitz, and I recently published a collection of short fiction through Hippocampus Press, available on Amazon. Renowned critic and Lovecraft biographer S.T. Joshi edited the book and wrote my foreword, and I would be thrilled if you would pick up a copy, write a review on Amazon, and talk to me about the stories! Mike

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Hello, Mike. Welcome to TLO. Are any of your stories available online?

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Hi everybody,
I am Mixu Lauronen from Finland. I am in my early 40s and married with no kids but two cats. I am a horror enthusiast, although I mainly write fantasy and science fiction short stories (and occassionally get some published, too).

I personally found Ligotti when I got Grimscribe and Teattro Grottesco as an exchange for Kalevala years ago. I lost the books somewhere, but got them again by chance a little while ago. :)
I especially enjoy Tom's language and would like to get my hands on more of his books.

My other favourites are E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, F. Leiber and M. Peake - all of which are great artists using language as more than mere words. All of them are also dead, so that leaves only Ligotti as a source for new stories. :(

But anyway, I'm glad I found this place.

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HI, my name is Justin, and I'm a Ligottiholic. I go by DoktorH here and elsewhere on the internet because it is an abbreviated form of my preaching name, Reverend Doktor Zombie Holocaust. I am an ordained minister in the Church of the SubGenius, a parody religion that believes in mocking all religions equally, including itself.

It has been about a year since i saw The Conspiracy Against the Human Race plugged on Boingboing, and decided that LIgotti was a writer i'd vastly enjoy. Since then, it has been a steady but voracious and expensive book-gathering. first cheap editions of whatever i could get, then rare/limited stuff.

I live in the US. I'm 31. No kids, pets, significant others, or artistic inclinations. I work in a reasonably-sized cubicle in a big office of a big bank. I like to watch horror movies, read comic books, take naps, play games on my ipod touch.

for a few years, going to SubGenius festivals was a favored vacation activity, but I have lost interest in it and haven't made up my mind how I want to use my vacation time next year.

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When I registered not too long ago, I looked for an "introduce yourself" topic and somehow missed this one at the time.

My name's Mike Griffin and I live in Portland, Oregon, USA. I write weird short fiction which I've just begun to see published, and also own an ambient music record label called Hypnos Recordings. I have a great wife who keeps the Hypnos operation running while I grind away at my day job as IT Manager at a steel processing company. My own ambient music, generally in a dark/minimalist style, is released under the name M. Griffin, including five solo albums and three collaborations. I'm also half of the duo Viridian Sun which has released four albums.

I've been pleasantly surprised to find many ambient music listeners around here, though I suppose I shouldn't be. Over at the Hypnos Forum (a community similar to this one, but oriented toward ambient music and related subjects, not just the Hypnos label), many of the members express an interest in strange and particularly dark literature and film. Certain tastes or preferences seem to cross boundaries from one medium to another somewhat consistently.

I've been lurking on here for quite a while, and only registered recently to share pictures of my newly-arrived copy of The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein. That was not my first Ligotti book, but I suppose the first worthy of showing photographs to strangers. I have the two Subterranean reissues so far, and plan to get Noctuary when it's available. I also have paperbacks of Teatro Grottesco and My Work is Not Yet Done, because these were Ligotti's only readily available books at the time I was first inspired to check him out. Ligotti's fantastic and inventive literary art appeals to me more than his philosophy.

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Hello,

I live in Finland and I just turned 18, so I guess I am one of the junior members here. I discovered Ligotti not so long ago. I heard some praise about him and decided to order Teatro Grottesco. I expected well-written, thought-provoking horror - what I got was extremely dark philosophy that crawled straight into my consciousness without bigger obstacles. I really have to read Ligotti in small doses, because you can really get an overdose of darkness. Ligotti's stories make me think about things I wouldn't normally think about - and those things are too dark to think about all the time. Shame that only a couple of Ligotti's stories have been translated into Finnish, but luckily I can cope with English.

I have been a friend of horror for years. My favorites beside Ligotti are Lovecraft and Poe. These ones are ingenious writers showing that horror is much more than just crappy entertainment.

I also write myself, and writing is certainly my most important freetime activity. I couldn't imagine a human being who didn't listen to music; I often torture my ears by listening 80's heavy metal with a very loud volume. I'm also a movie-enthusiast and maybe even some sort of collector.

You'll hear about me again.

-A

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It is nice to see new members signing up. As a long time member, I would like to say, welcome aboard! I think you will find this site very interesting and entertaining.

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Hello all, my name is Tim and I'm a 17 year old student living in Texas. I first discovered Ligotti a year ago when a young dada artist I'm rather fond of recommended Teatro Grottesco to me.

I don't read often, but I enjoy the works of Ligotti, Lovecraft, Poe, and William Gibson. I primary interests in fiction are the horror and cyberpunk genres.

My main passions are music, computers, and video games. I listen to mostly industrial music, neofolk, and IDM. In my free time I like to create music of my own, program simple games, or occasionally write horror stories while attempting to mimic Ligotti's writing. Recently, I created a game for the Ludum Dare competition, which was based on Ligotti's work. It's not great and it's nothing to be proud of, but I found it relevant to mention. I'm quite new to software development, so my programming skills are sub-par.

I'm looking forward to meeting some of you soon!

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Hello, My name is Wesley and I have been a member for some many months now. Besides the obvious enjoyment of Ligotti, I enjoy the works of Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse. I also like to collect pens and if I had the space, I would collect typewriters instead of only having one.

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Hi
I'm new here and to Ligotti. In fact I have yet to read one of his books, though Teatro Grottesco is on the way. Truth is, I'm new to horror, having only really gotten into it in the past two or three weeks. Up to now the only horror I've read has been, many years ago, Stephen King, which I found entertaining, but not much more. My new interest in horror came about through reading Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs; from that came Matt Cardin, who's book Divinations of the Deep I recently downloaded. It was from there that I found Thomas Ligotti, and my curiosity got the best of me. I'm looking forward to reading his book.

I'm presently reading the Dark Faith anthology edited by Maurice Broaddus. I'm newly fascinated by horror with religious/spiritual themes, probably because I've been a seeker most of my life as well as an ex-fundamentalist.

Strange, unnerving world I've entered.