Comments on: Interview: Thomas Ligotti and the Realm of Nightmares ../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Paul B. ../#comment-111775 Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:32:50 +0000 ../../../../#comment-111775 Ligotti is a master, and his fiction is sublime. That said, I am glad that the “Conspiracy” wasn’t my first encounter with him and his work. I am not at all deluded about my ability (more like unfortunate lack thereof) to separate works of Art from the personal views and opinions of their Authors…

]]> By: J.P. ../#comment-110738 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:19:27 +0000 ../../../../#comment-110738 LIGOTTI: “Oddly enough, I’ve always thought of The Conspiracy against the Human Race as a kind of inspirational, quasi-self-help book. Seriously.”

I feel compelled to respond to this quote.

I’ve struggled with major depression, anhedonia & hopelessness for half my life. I discovered Ligotti last year. I find CONSPIRACY to be strangely empowering. Enabling a sense of self-acceptance. Rather than saying ‘It’s okay to feel sad, but you mustn’t think ill of life,’ Ligotti’s book says to me ‘It’s okay to hate life, and you don’t have to commit suicide to prove it.’

It’s very comforting to know I’m not the only one who considers this book “inspirational.”

RE: “a number of readers and reviewers have blithely said that having written The Conspiracy Against the Human I would be a hypocrite and all around inauthentic being not to kill myself.”

This would only be true if CONSPIRACY encouraged suicide, which it doesn’t. These hypocritical pro-life critics are the ones encouraging suicide.

Many thanks to Mr. Ligotti for his willingness to be candid about these matters. And thank you WFR for posting this interview.

]]> By: Mike Allen ../#comment-102611 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:14:20 +0000 ../../../../#comment-102611 Terrific interview. I am especially delighted at the image of a monster/puppet cage match.

]]> By: Jack Tripper ../#comment-102544 Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:49:08 +0000 ../../../../#comment-102544 Great interview as usual from Mr. Ligotti. Loving the new Penguin edition of Songs and Grimscribe. The new revisions make a lot of the stories clearer and more focused than the early 90s mass-market editions I own, especially for “Eye of the Lynx,” which used to be pretty much incomprehensible to me, while now I think it’s one of the stronger and more horrifying stories in Songs.

Does anyone know if the revisions here are the same as the Subterranean Press editions from a few years back? I don’t own those, but I’d imagine the text in the Penguin release would be the same as those, or close to it.

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