![]() ![]() The first two and the substantial stories from the third were collected in The Nightmare Factory, but second hand copies of that are absurdly expensive, and The Shadow at the Bottom of the World only collected a few stories from each. However, Ligotti’s earlier career was a different matter, with three of these primary anthologies coming out in the 1980s and early 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to Ligotti’s struggles with writer’s block and anhedonia, he has only produced a few of these anthologies Teatro Grottesco, in fact, took so long to come out that some of its stories appeared in The Nightmare Factory and Shadow before it finally emerged. Some, like The Nightmare Factory and The Shadow at the Bottom of the World are compilations of compilations, selections of stories reprinted from what I think of as his “primary anthologies” this latter category consists of books like Teatro Grottesco, which are much more carefully curated things in which the stories are arranged into sets of thematically appropriate categories. Thomas Ligotti’s anthologies come in two forms. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. ![]()
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