The follow up to the cult graphic novel containing more short stories from acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti brought frighteningly to life by a collection of today's most talented writers and illustrators. In this all-new volume, four of Ligotti's most celebrated tales are adapted into fine graphic literature by a collection of esteemed writers and artists. In "Sect of the Idiot" and "The Chymist", writer Stuart Moore explores the Lovecraftian landscape of a world where all is not quite as it seems and chronicles the life of a doctor whose oath is to harm rather than to heal, while in "Gas Station Carnivals" and "The Clown Puppet" writer Joe Harris ushers forth a sinister backwoods carnival Showman and an evil, ethereal puppet who haunt their victim's every waking dream and sleeping nightmare. The Nightmare Factory - Volume 2 represents the continuation of 2007's acclaimed graphic novel The Nightmare Factory, for which outlets such as Entertainment Weekly and The Boston Globe praised the book as, "deliciously bleak" and, "a bitterly entertaining treat".

The Nightmare Factory. 2

Thomas Ligotti

Harper/Voyager

"A fractured mind is often the way into a world not suspected by those of an innocent normality."
Enter the universe of renowned horror master Thomas Ligotti—a universe where clowns take part in a sinister winter festival, a scheming girlfriend makes reality itself come unraveled, a crumbling asylum's destruction unleashes a greater horror, and a mysterious Teatro comes and goes, leaving only shattered dreams in its wake.
In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, Ligotti's sophisticated tales of terror take us to places few would suspect exist, where madness is only a thought away. The Nightmare Factory adapts four of Ligotti's most chilling tales into fine graphic literature by famed writers and artists Stuart Moore, Joe Harris, Colleen Doran (The Sandman), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Ted McKeever (Batman), and Michael Gaydos (Alias). Featuring all-new introductions to each story by Thomas Ligotti.

The Nightmare Factory

Comics & Graphic Novels

Joe Harris

Stuart Moore

Manga

Harper Paperbacks

The mind-bending universe of horror master Thomas Ligotti awaits in another graphic adaptation of his haunting work. Enter a sphere where bizarre gas station carnivals serve as the first stop on the road to oblivion, a malevolent puppet steals people's identities, a deranged chemist engages in horrific experiments, and nameless beings skulk about in a stone tower, waiting to envelop the unsuspecting into the nebulous reaches of unreality. 
Ligotti's world is a thoroughly modern one where both identity and reality are fleeting, and nothing is truly as it appears to be.
Four more of Ligotti's arresting tales are adapted into fine graphic literature by famed creators Stuart Moore, Joe Harris, Vasilis Lolos (The Last Call), Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin), Toby Cypress (Killing Girl), and Nick Stakal (Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby), featuring all-new introductions to each story by Thomas Ligotti.

The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 2

Graphic Novels

Teatro Grottesco

Virgin Digital

A collection of short horror stories features the work of Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.

Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)

Literature & Fiction

Karl Edward Wagner

CLIVE BARKER

Peter Straub

Kate Wilhelm

JOHN BRUNNER

Poppy Z. Brite

Les Daniels

Scott Edelman

Stephen Jones

Douglas Winter

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Peter Atkins

kim-newman

Lisa Tuttle

simon-ings

Graham, Joyce

Roberta Lannes

M.John Harrison

United States

Carroll & Graf Pub.

A collection of horror fiction turns the abstract matter of dreaming moments into vivid and compelling nightmares

Carroll&Graf

The award-winning Best New Horror anthology series—winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award—has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Stephen Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by the horror genre's finest exponents and by new discoveries in the field. Contributors to this volume include Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, and Conrad Williams. Also, Stephen Jones once again provides the most comprehensive overview of the field for the year and a full necrology, plus a list of useful contacts among organizations, magazines, booksellers, and more. Whether a reader is a fan of supernatural chillers, macabre fantasy, or psychological terror, the thirteenth Mammoth Book of Best New Horror will appeal to their dark side. "The definitive series of Horror ‘Bests' ... you'll get quantity as well as quality."—Science Fiction Chronicle "A formidable line-up of must-read creepers whose merits are indisputable even to entrenched enthusiasts of the genre."—Publishers Weekly "Essential reading every year."—Hellnotes "The finest horror collection going."—Kirkus Reviews

Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)

Tanith, Lee

Glen Hirshberg

Many Others

Running Press

This is scarce Ligotti title that was out of print upon publication. Cream buckram-covered boards with front and rear cover illustrations. Contents are four short stories in the fantastical horror vein of Lovecraft: "His shadow shall rise to a higher house", "The bells will sound forever", "A soft voice whispers nothing", and "When you hear the singing, you will know it is time". The book is accompanied by a CD of music by Stephen Stapleton of Current 93, which is the suggested appropriate aural ambience for reading the stories.

In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land

Durtro, London

Crampton

Brandon Trenz

Durtro Press

Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H.P. Lovecraft. Celebrated for his exceptionally grotesque imagination and facility as a prose writer, he is a five-time recipient of the most prestigious awards in horror literature. This fact is unusual in that Ligotti's work does not display the traits which have come to be associated with contemporary horror - sympathetic heroes, settings in the everyday world, and good versus evil scenarios. Instead, he has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare. The stories collected in Teatro Grottesco, for instance, feature tormented individuals who play out there doom in various odd little towns for which Ligotti is noted as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that include the title work of this collection introduces the readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that threaten their lives and their sanity. In other tales, characters live in the shadow of menacing forms and forces that ultimately envelop them in the most perverse and deranged destinities. The 'funny town' of 'The Town Manager', the 'medicine shop' of 'The Clown Puppet', and the foggy terrain 'across the border' of 'Our Case for Retributive Action' and 'Our Temporary Supervisor' are among the venues that close in on those fated to exist within their precincts. These are selected examples of the bleak array of persons and places that compose the fiction of Thomas Ligotti. As one critic has written, 'Ligotti is wonderful and original; has a dark vision of a new and special kind, a vision that no one has had before him.'

Genre Fiction

Mythos Books LLC

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