Paperback, 230 pages
English language
Published Oct. 1, 1994 by Jove.
3 stars
(3 reviews)
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 …
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 homage to Lovecraft ever written."
Subjects
- Fiction
- Horror
- Fantasy
- Weird Fiction
- Lovecraftian
- Gothic