Mysteriarch 📖 commented on Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed …
The Library of Byzantium ★★ A small disturbed child gets a visit by an old priest who offers him an inspiring glimpse of a world of torment in a book. When the child steals a page from it, he forms a psychic connection to the priest and learn what the consequences can be of the path offered by a monastic life. I found it not very evocative or thrilling, with a rather curt, evasive ending.