Sideshow and Other Stories
2003
First Published
4.21
Average Rating
30
Number of Pages
Chap Book. Signed by Author. Limited to 350 signed and numbered sotfcover chapbooks and SOLD OUT at the publisher. Signed by Author. Sideshow and Other Stories is at once the story of a writer who has reached a crisis point in his own writing, and his encounters with another, older writer who he comes to regard as his lost literary father. Sideshow and Other Stories also contains five stories by this older writer, as well as notes, uncollected phrases, of a sixth story with the apparent working title of Sideshow. Foreword, The Malignant Matrix, Premature Communicati on, The Astronomic Blur, The Abyss of Organic Forms, The Phenomenal Frenzy, Afterword.
Avg Rating
4.21
Number of Ratings
57
5 STARS
46%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
16%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Thomas Ligotti
Author · 24 books
Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings, while unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres—most prominently Lovecraftian horror—and have overall been described as works of "philosophical horror", often written as philosophical novels with a "darker" undertone which is similar to gothic fiction. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction"; another critic declared "It's a skilled writer indeed who can suggest a horror so shocking that one is grateful it was kept offstage."
