“In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all of our so-called virtues only trouble us… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The dismembered limbs of dolls and puppets are strewn about everywhere. Posters, signs, billboards, and leaflets of various sorts are scattered around like playing… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
