Thomas Ligotti was born on July 9,1953 and is an American horror author, lay philosopher, and writer.
15 Facts About Thomas Ligotti
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Thomas Ligotti started his professional writing career in the early 1980s with short stories published in American small press magazines.
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Thomas Ligotti was contributing editor to Grimoire from 1982 to 1985.
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Thomas Ligotti is a master of a different order, practically a different species.
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Thomas Ligotti collaborated with the musical group Current 93 on the albums In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land, I Have a Special Plan for This World, This Degenerate Little Town and The Unholy City, all released on David Tibet's Durtro label.
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Additionally, Thomas Ligotti played guitar on Current 93's contribution to the compilation album Foxtrot, whose proceeds went to the treatment of musician John Balance's alcoholism.
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Thomas Ligotti has cited Thomas Bernhard, William S Burroughs, Emil Cioran, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, and Bruno Schulz as being among his favorite writers.
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Thomas Ligotti has invoked the influence of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer and Peter Wessel Zapffe.
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Thomas Ligotti has suffered from chronic anxiety and anhedonia for much of his life; these have been prominent themes in his work.
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Thomas Ligotti avoids the explicit violence common in some recent horror fiction, preferring to establish a disquieting, pessimistic atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition.
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Thomas Ligotti has stated he prefers short stories to longer forms, both as a reader and as a writer, though he has written a novella, My Work Is Not Yet Done.
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Thomas Ligotti attended Macomb County Community College between 1971 and 1973 and graduated from Wayne State University in 1978.
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For 23 years Thomas Ligotti worked as an Associate Editor at Gale Research, a publishing company that produces compilations of literary research.
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Thomas Ligotti has been influenced by the "first-person voice in which Nabokov wrote" and the "densely metaphorical style of Bruno Schulz".
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Author Jeff VanderMeer has penned numerous pieces praising Thomas Ligotti's writing, including the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe.