Quotes by : Thomas Ligotti

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes....

While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire....

From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous....

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection....

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human....

METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or....

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports....

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other....

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number....

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny....