Mysteriarch π commented on Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Ligottiβs debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed β¦
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World β β β Ligotti's take on Lovecraft's The Colour out of Space. A small town is confronted with strange happenings around a scarecrow out in the fields. They discover that the tendrils that reach out for it come from an impossible deep place, they try to cover it up and forget about it. But soon the town suffers from collective nightmares and they decide that only blood will fix this.