The Collected Short Fiction (v3.2)

✍ Scribed by Ligotti, Thomas

• Book ID: 107909523
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 868 KB
• Edition: 3.2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This is a near-complete collection of the short fiction and poetry of Thomas Ligotti, presented in chronological order of publication, with the most recently-revised version first. Read each story, then the earlier version, and in some cases versions before that.
This is version 3.2, released July 2014 to include the two stories from The Spectral Link, and the vignette The Old Shelters.

CONTENTS
The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, Citizen of Geneva
Alice's Last Adventure
Allen and Adelaide: An Arabesque
Autumnal
The Dark Beauty Of Unheard-Of Horrors
The Bells Will Sound Forever
The Blasphemous Enlightenment of Prof. Francis Wayland Thurston of Boston, Providence, and the Human Race
The Bungalow House
The Career of Nightmares
Charnelhouse of the Moon
The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe
The Chymist
The Clown Puppet
The Cocoons
The Consolations Of Horror
Conversations in a Dead Language
Crampton
The Dark Beauty Of Unheard-Of Horrors
Death Poems
Death without End
This Degenerate Little Town
Demonic Horror
The Demon Man
The Dreaming in Nortown
Dream of a Mannikin
Dreamworld Horror
Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes
Dr. Locrian's Asylum
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech
Envoi
The Eternal Devotion of the Governess to the Residents of Bly
The Eternal Mirage
The Ever-Vigilant Guardians of Secluded Estates
The Excruciating Final Days of Dr. Henry Jekyll, Englishman
Exotic Horror
Eye of the Lynx
The Fabulous Alienation of the Outsider, Being of No Fixed Abode
Flowers of the Abyss
The Frolic
Gas Station Carnivals
Ghost Stories for the Dead
The Glamour
Gothic Horror
The Greater Festival of Masks
The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God
His Shadow Shall Rise to a Higher House
I Have a Special Plan for This World
The Inquisitor
In the Shadow of Another World
The Insufferable Salvation of Lawrence Talbot the Wolfman
The Interminable Equation
The Interminable Residence of the Friends of the House of Usher
An Interview With Louis Miguel Riaz
The Intolerable Lesson of the Phantom of the Opera
Invocation to the Void
The Journal of J.P. Drapeau
The Last Feast Of Harlequin
Les Fleurs
The Library of Byzantium
The Lost Art of Twilight
Macabre Horror
Mad Night of Atonement
Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie
The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets
The Mechanical Museum
The Medusa
Metaphysica Morum
Miss Plarr
The Mocking Mystery
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel
The Music of the Moon
My Case for Retributive Action
The Mystics of Muelenburg
My Work Is Not Yet Done
The Nameless Horror
Nethescurial
New Faces in the City
Nightmare Horror
The Nightmare Network
The Night School
Nihilistic Horror
Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story
Occult Horror
The Old Shelters
One May Be Dreaming
One Thousand Painful Variations Performed Upon Divers Creatures Undergoing the Treatment of Dr. Moreau, Humanist
The Order of Illusion
Our Temporary Supervisor
Paradoxes From Hell
The Perilous Legacy of Emily St. Aubert, Inheritress of Udolpho
The Physic
Prehistoric Horror
The Premature Death of H.P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England
The Premature Transfiguration
Primordial Loathing
The Prodigy of Dreams
Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror
Puppet Horror
The Puppet Masters
Purity
The Real Wolf
The Red Tower
Salvation by Doom
Sardonic Mundane
The Scream: from 1800 to the Present
The Sect of the Idiot
Severini
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
The Shadow, The Darkness
Sideshow and Other Stories
The Small People
A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing
The Spectacles in the Drawer
The Spectral Estate
Spectral Horror
The Spectral Link (Introduction)
The Strange Design of Master Rignolo
Suicide By Imagination
The Superb Companion of André de V., Anti-Pygmalion
Teatro Grottesco
Ten Steps to Thin Mountain
Things They Will Never Tell You
The Town Manager
The Transparent Alias of William Wilson, Sportsman and Scoundrel
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss
The Tsalal
The Unbearable Rebirth of the Phantom of the Wax Museum
The Unfamiliar
The Unholy City
The Unnatural Persecution, by a Vampire, of Mr. Jacob J.
Unreal Horror
Vastarien
The Voice in the Bones
We Can Hide From Horror Only In The Heart Of Horror: Notes And Aphorisms
When You Hear The Singing, You Will Know It Is Time
The Worthy Inmate of the Will of the Lady Ligeia