The Last Feast of Harlequin
1990
First Published
4.08
Average Rating
34
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"The Last Feast of Harlequin" is a novella about an anthropologist studying clown festivals. While investigating a particularly odd one, previously the object of study by his former mentor who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the narrator discovers the monstrous truth behind the town of Mirocaw and its bizarre traditions... In the observation of H. P. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi, Ligotti's fascinating story "may perhaps be the very best homage to Lovecraft ever written."
Avg Rating
4.08
Number of Ratings
230
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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."
