Grimscribe

His Lives and Works

Paperback, 230 pages

English language

Published Oct. 1, 1994 by Jove.

ISBN:
978-0-515-11471-3
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OCLC Number:
31079923
ASIN:
0515114715

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His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti's first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by the same publishers.

In the view of many commentators, it was with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his reputation as a horror writer of high stature. As Steven J. Mariconda remarked in a 1992 essay surveying the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer and "Of the two collections, Grimscribe achieves near-classic status and is recommended to all." Included in this volume is "The Last Feast of Harlequin," a novella that, in the observation of H. P. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi, "may perhaps be the very best …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Lovecraftian
  • Gothic