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Title	:	Teatro Grottesco
Author	:	Thomas Ligotti
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 312 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2007 by Mythos Books LLC (first published September 1997)
Categories	:	Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Weird Fiction

Teatro Grottesco

Thomas Ligotti

Hardcover | Pages: 312 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 3558 Users | 370 Reviews

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This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of Thomas Ligotti.

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Original Title:	Teatro grottesco
ISBN:	0978991176 (ISBN13: 9780978991173)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.1 From 3558 Users | 370 Reviews

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I was able to pick up a hardcover edition published by Mythos Books. This first edition originally sold for $35.00. Some of the stories here are amazingly good. Others are just kind of good. All are interesting and well written. Mr. Ligotti's command of the language is awe inspiring. The reason for only four stars is due to the "sameness" I felt in some of the stories. They took me to somewhere that I had been taken to previously with in this book.To be sure there are some exceptional examples

Ligotti is usually classified as a "horror" writer, but this label is much too limiting. Ligotti embodies the eccentricity and loneliness of Poe (minus the romantic sentimentality), the bleak existential inner landscape of Kafka, the lunatic small-town atmosphere of Bruno Schulz and the mordant epigrammatic nihilism of Cioran. Ligotti is a profoundly disturbing writer, an unclassifiable talent right up there with such unique voices as Borges, Calvino and Lem.

"And no matter what I say cannot resist or betray it. No one could do so because there is no one here. There is only this body, this shadow, this darkness."I remember picking this one up several years ago, and reading the first story Purity, and putting it down for reasons I can't really describe without feeling a bit ashamed...Obviously, I did't get it; I wasn't ready, and I had better things to do like picking up "better" books... and by "better" I mean the ones that could be interesting to

Kafka on steroids. I didn't like this book as much as I thought I would because, although I love Kafka, I've moved on in how I think fiction should address the nihilistic worldview. I'm in the Harlan Ellison camp where the best stories have flesh and blood characters that we actually care about. The stories were weird and somewhat disturbing but never creepy or scary. The atmosphere is more absurdist than horror. Ligotti is definitely unique in his fictional translation of the ultimate

It's a solid four-star read. I do not have the faintest idea how to review it, though, because spoilers (in the case of horror fiction) really consist of telling readers what to expect to feel or think about the stories.So...here it is...if you've read my other reviews, and you find that you agree with me at least 70% of the time, this collection is very much worth your money and your eyeblinks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

Industrious NihilismLook not here for meaning. But, upon finding any, do try to restrain your enthusiasm. The meaning of these stories is that there is no meaning. Our instinct is to fight against this, to supply explanations or additions to Ligottis prose. We are prone to create meaning out of thin air, as it were. But with Ligotti, dont. Meaning doesnt exist out there. And whats in here is totally arbitrary, including, of course, the absence of meaning. One suspects a limitation with the

Thomas Ligottis distinctive style maintains an intriguing continuity throughout much of this collection, with varying degrees of success in the choice of narrative vehicle, each of which runs on similar fuel: a stoic acceptance of the futility inherent in everything (excepting for a slight ambivalence toward the art that in turn acknowledges said futility). Having not read Ligotti before nor read about his influences, I was most curious to experience his style firsthand. Rather unexpectedly I