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Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy.

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.

Autore di culto della letteratura americana contemporanea, restio alle attenzioni dei media ma autenticamente seminale - suoi gli incubi che hanno ispirato la prima stagione di "True Detective" -, Thomas Ligotti è unanimamente considerato l'unico, grande successore di Edgar Allan Poe e H.P. Lovecraft.

What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead - until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her....

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda - a successful architect in a happy marriage - finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.

Quando, all'origine dei tempi, l'Homo sapiens ha trovato per la prima volta un suo simile a terra, rigido ed esanime, l'ha accerchiato improvvisando un rituale per poi trascinarlo il più lontano possibile, affinché non tornasse tra i vivi. Da quel momento - prima apparizione memorabile della morte sulla Terra - l'umanità ha iniziato a fare i conti con la precarietà della propria vita, e si è divisa in due schieramenti: quello dei pessimisti e quello, molto più nutrito, degli ottimisti.

C'è un ragazzo infetto dei suoi sogni, che finisce tra le grinfie di una strega, come nella migliore tradizione dei fratelli Grimm. E quale strana creatura fatta di stracci si trascina sul pavimento di una casa disabitata, anelando alla libertà?

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine, heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent. With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both.

Con gli occhi chiusi, il mondo appare diverso: minuscoli umanoidi escono dalle loro tane, a bordo di inquietanti giocattoli, riappropriandosi delle stanze che sono state loro negate; misteriosi esseri mutanti rivelano antichi segreti in lingue sconosciute; le ossessioni e i deliri dei folli diventano indistinguibili dalle lucide ragioni degli assennati; il reale e l’indicibile si fondono l’uno nell’altro.

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Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Glass half-full or half-empty? Do you look on the bright side or turn towards the dark? These are easy questions for most of us to answer, because our personality types are hardwired into our brains. As pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has discovered, our outlook on life reflects our primal inclination to seek pleasure or avoid danger - inclinations that, in many people, are healthily balanced. But when our “fear brain” or “pleasure brain” is too strong, the results can be disastrous....

6 Grandiose Vampir-Stories, ausgewählt und mit einem Vorwort von Oscar-Preisträger und Alien-Schöpfer HR Giger höchstpersönlich. Ein Genuss für Freunde surrealer Klangwelten. Gelesen von den besten Sprechern Deutschlands.

Frankenstein, Dracula, il dottor Jekyll e Mr Hyde, l'uomo lupo, il fantasma dell'Opera, ma anche il William Wilson di Poe e H.P. Lovecraft in persona: sono tutti protagonisti di questi brevi, folgoranti racconti dell'orrore, o per meglio dire dell'orrore supremo, quello capace di lasciarci abbacinati, sospesi e attoniti, con una cantilena in testa o un vuoto che presto diventa voragine.

Do you struggle with negative thoughts? If so, think positively about Optimize Your Pessimism. Learn Dustyn's six simple, yet obscure steps to optimize your thinking. You have never heard it put this way before. Optimize Your Pessimism is a concise guide with relatable content. The comforting "you're not the only one" mantra is gracefully carried throughout this work. The realistic, down-to-Earth views of the author makes this book truly shine.