Jon Padgett's acclaimed collection/hybrid novel, The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book by Rue Morgue Magazine, now returns in an expanded edition of the original, with three new stories. The book features Dave Felton's iconic cover art and frontispiece as well as a Foreword by the legendary Thomas Ligotti.With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett's work explores the myster...

This is the debut title from the Nightscape Press Charitable Chapbooks line. Forty percent of net sales from this eBook will go to support the ACLU.When she was young, Slaw often woke screaming. In the darkness of her bedroom, she would whisper a single prayer to the invisible gods of her childhood: "Please don't let me dream." But as she grew older, day-to-day life overwhelmed her imagination—smothering her dreams under the pillow of the mundane.Now a stre...

Il segreto del ventriloquio esplora i misteri della sofferenza e dell’angoscia umana, un lungo percorso, che parte dalla meditazione dell’Orrore, attraverso 20 semplici lezione sull’arte del ventriloquio, sino ad arrivare ai sogni di Origami e agli indicibili segreti dei giorni della cartiera. E quella voce inquietante che parla attraverso tutti quanti.Sulla scia di autori come Shirley Jackson, Bruno Schulz e Thomas Ligotti, Jon Padgett si è rivelato come una delle più for...

Una de las colecciones de cuentos de terror más perturbadoras y únicas de lo que va de siglo. Relatos que abordan temas tan horrendos como hermanos asesinos, marionetas que cobran vida, casas que mutan a voluntad, parques de atracciones que encierran repugnantes secretos, pesadillas que estiran sus tentáculos más allá del sueño y, en definitiva, la gran pregunta que encierra toda buena historia de terror: ¿qué nos diferencia de los monstruos?

Chiroptera Press presents Noctuary & The Spectral Link by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, a consolidated volume of two horror collections, back in print after over a decade.Noctuary is divided into three sections, following Ligotti’s introduction, “In the Night, in the Dark: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction.” The first section, Studies in Shadow, begins with “The Medusa,” blurring lines between fiction, metaphor, and reality. “Conversations in a Dead Language” chronicles a ...

**In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality."There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."**His...

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)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 deepes...