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"A fractured mind is often the way into a world not suspected by those of an innocent normality."Enter the universe of renowned horror master Thomas Ligotti--a universe where clowns take part in a sinister winter festival, a scheming girlfriend makes reality itself come unraveled, a crumbling asylum's destruction unleashes a greater horror, and a mysterious Teatro comes and goes, leaving only shattered dreams in its wake.In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, Ligotti's show more sophisticated tales of terror take us to places few would suspect exist, where madness is only a thought away. The Nightmare Factory adapts four of Ligotti's most chilling tales into fine graphic literature by famed writers and artists Stuart Moore, Joe Harris, Colleen Doran (The Sandman), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Ted McKeever (Batman), and Michael Gaydos (Alias). Featuring all-new introductions to each story by Thomas Ligotti. show lessTags
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This book is a nice fat compilation of stories. Thomas Ligotti has a wonderful baroque and almost antique style, where sentences just *sound* good as you read them - he is an author for those of us who love words. He is definitely Lovecraftian, and like Lovecraft, his form of horror slowly creeps up on you over a number of stories and has you jumping at shadows. Truly an underacknowedged gem in the modern horror canon.
Short stories, and some short-shorts. Many of them don't do much for me, but there are a few that are really, really disturbing. Some of the images haunt me to this day. "The Frolic" is terrifying, and could easily fit into a collection of best horror stories ever written.
very very scary
Sep 24, 2009Finnish
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- Canonical title
- The Nightmare Factory
- People/Characters
- Severini; Ivan Vizniak; Dr. Theodore Groddeck; Dr. Raymond Thoss; Alb Indys; Dr. David Munck (show all 7); Bartholomew Gray
- Important places
- St. Alban's Marsh; Nethescurial; Vastarien
- Disambiguation notice
- Not to be confused with the graphic novel of the same name, which features Joe Harris' adaptation of four Ligotti stories.
This is the collection of short stories and not the graphic novel based on four of Ligotti's short stories.
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