Costa's Audio Book ft "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" 讀你聽2.2《死夢者之歌》

CAB - Costa's Audio Book feature "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" by Thomas Ligotti 《讀你聽2.2》另類分享 驚異短篇小說集 怪奇文學基石 托馬斯·利戈蒂 八六年出版《死夢者之歌》 風格融合超現實與存在恐懼 探索腐敗城市與夢境 Dreams for Sleepwalkers 00:28 The Frolic- A prison psychiatrist, Dr. Munck, meets John Doe, a charismatic, supernatural patient whose chilling, otherworldly crimes unsettle Munck’s rational worldview, threatening his family’s safety with eerie, ominous implications in a tense narrative. 32:04 Les Fleurs- A narrator’s romance with florist Daisy unravels amid his secretive life. Her curiosity and a detective’s probing hint at dark secrets, ending ambiguously with looming dread and wilting connections. 49:41 Alice’s Last Adventure- Alice, an aging writer, revisits her surreal children’s stories, blurring reality and fiction. Strange events and a sinister figure haunt her, leading to an ambiguous, unsettling end hinting at her possible demise. 1:27:44 Dream of a Manikin- A psychologist analyzes Miss Locher’s dream of working in a clothing shop, where a lifelike manikin unsettles them. Paranoia grows, blurring dream and reality, as they suspect a mysterious conspiracy involving “you.” The Nyctalops Trilogy 1:59:20 I The Chymist - Simon, a cryptic chemist, is led to Rosemary’s home in a decaying city, where his talk of an alchemical process warps reality, drawing her into a disturbing, dreamlike mystery with eerie, irreversible consequences. 2:25:13 II Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes - A hypnotist showcases his eerily beautiful assistant at a society party, scorns his entranced audience, confronts a skeptical child, and prepares to reveal her horrifying corpse-like reality. 2:47:18 III Eye of the Lynx - An unnamed narrator explores the House of Chains, a BDSM brothel, guided by a dominatrix through surreal, fantasy-laden scenes, blending reality and imagination in a hypnotic, seductive power play. 3:06:35 Notes on the Writing of Horror - what appears to be a guidebook on horror fiction, but slowly this apparatus of learning collapses into the grotesque performance of the horror it aims to describe. Dreams for Insomniacs 3:50:02 Jack visits Aunt Elise on Christmas Eve, hears a neighbor’s eerie tale, and faces a parallel reality, reliving past holidays with themes of possession and dread amidst festive terror. 4:08:16 A half-vampire painter, raised in the U.S. after his mother’s vampire-related death, is fully transformed by paternal relatives who took over his existence, revealing their terrifying, inhuman nature. 4:47:47 Misanthropic artist Alb Indys, isolated and drawing still lifes, overhears tales of Dr. Thoss, a mad, murderous physician. Thoss, real and legendary, claims Alb, whose death spawns a new urban legend. 5:15:24 Swordsman Faliol, with spectacles revealing existential horror, aids a prince rescuing his beloved from a duke. Wizard-guided, he infiltrates a masked pageant, confronting god Anima Mundi in philosophical torment. 6:01:26 Veech seeks Voke’s aid for a love triangle, luring rivals to a street where unseen forces transform them into a hideous hybrid. Distraught, he confronts Voke, who dies laughing, animating a manikin in a chaotic loft. 6:24:26 An essay on supernatural horror’s appeal, transforming normalcy into darkness, explores morbidity as time’s depletion, pessimism as a gloomy gift, and “existence equals nightmare,” with sardonic harmony evading life’s tormenting affirmations. Dreams for the Dead 6:37:03 Dr. Locrian’s Asylum - Mr. Crane recalls the town haunted by Dr. Locrian’s abandoned asylum, where apparitions appear in windows; after its destruction, the hauntings persist, and Locrian imparts secrets, ultimately confining Crane in the asylum’s legacy. 6:59:27 The Sect of the Idiot - A traveler visits an unnamed, decaying town, meets a strange figure, uncovers a hidden hooded sect performing rituals in an attic; after contact he’s absorbed into their rites and leaves haunted, changed forever. 7:24:01 The Greater Festival of Masks - Noss visits a town’s mask festival, finds a perfect mask, and helps the shopkeeper. At a party, the mask no longer fits; discarding it, he realizes he has changed before the true festival begins. 7:40:37 The Music of the Moon - Tressor, a sleepless wanderer, attends a bizarre concert by eerie musicians fused with their instruments. Finally asleep, only he awakens to webbed, eyeless spectators, entranced by the moon’s call. 7:58:40 The Journal of J.P. Drapeau - A Poe-like writer’s 1890s diary begins with eerie fantasies and dreamlike visions, but gradually his entries shift into existential dread, self-doubt, and a haunting collapse of identity that consumes his reflections. 8:13:02 Vastarien - Victor Keirion, obsessed with finding the perfect book, discovers a peculiar shop where a crow-like man helps him obtain a mysterious...