Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

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Summary: A Taste of True Evil
Review: In the begining of Arthur Machen's wonderful story, The White People, a reclusive mystic descibes the nature of true evil, and he describes it well. Thomas Ligotti doesn't describe it...his work illustrates it. This is the finest book by the greatest American horror writer since Lovecraft. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Rating:
Summary: A Taste of True Evil
Review: In the begining of Arthur Machen's wonderful story, The White People, a reclusive mystic descibes the nature of true evil, and he describes it well. Thomas Ligotti doesn't describe it...his work illustrates it. This is the finest book by the greatest American horror writer since Lovecraft. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Summary: Lovecraft + Poe = Ligotti
Review: That basically sums up this book. It is well written yet i did not find the stories quite as terrifying as they were suggested to be. Not quite as good as Lovecraft, maybe not even as good as Derleth but definately worth a look all the same

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Summary: Lovecraft + Poe = Ligotti
Review: That basically sums up this book. It is well written yet i did not find the stories quite as terrifying as they were suggested to be. Not quite as good as Lovecraft, maybe not even as good as Derleth but definately worth a look all the same

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Summary: Absolutely amazing
Review: Thomas Ligotti is one of the best horror fiction authors of our time. I have read this book cover-to-cover, and even reread many stories. The imagery he paints with words is simply surreal and quite breath taking. Read his work, and you'll be quite pleased.

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Summary: Eerie...
Review: Told in a first person narative, a fictional diary of sorts, GRIMSCRIBE (His Lives and Works) is one eerie read. I quote the inner sleeve "Grimscribe is the faceless scientist of nightmare: an addict of the paranormal who relates his awesome adventures with the denizens of a shadow world that is at once half-mad and inescapably ours." This book delivers us into the heart of horror, unrelenting and bleak in aura, Lovecraftian style. Although there are many similarities between old H.P. and Ligotti, I oblige myself in mentioning that Ligotti does have an infectious prose that sinks just as deep as the Cthulu Mythos. Ligotti laces his pages with such an intense dose of "unsettlingness" that the stories stick to your gut long after you've read them. Nightmare inducing, intellectually disturbing, a carnival for the absurd. This one is a must for anyone who enjoys getting a severe case of the creeps.