About The Author:
Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American Gothic 'horror' author and a reclusive literary cult figure. His works have been noted to flourish the 'Lovecraftian horror' style and they have also been described as fitting the 'philosophical horror' tone.
Book Description:
Teatro Grottesco is an unnerving collection of short stories by Thomas Ligotti. These captivating works explore many concepts in the American Gothic, including The Lacanian Real and the abject. The stories are stroked with touches of the Latinate and Baroque styles. The novel imprisons many unsettling and disturbed towns, questionable scientific forces, malicious medical institutes, horrific life experiences, jarring and dark ideas, and twisted characters. Nonetheless, Ligotti weaves and entwines his narratives to enrapture the reader's intrigue in a disturbing and unnerving fashion which keeps the reader thirsting for more.