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{{quote| ''"...I’ve conceived of stories that were just too disturbing for me to write. If you can write something, then it’s only so disturbing. Anything truly disturbing can’t even be written. Even if it could, no one could stand to read it. And writing is essentially a means of entertainment for both the writer and the reader. I don’t care who the writer is—literature is entertainment or it is nothing."''<br />

 

One of the most respected writers in the field of supernatural horror alive today, Thomas Ligotti, in critical terms, has it all. He has been nominated for and won awards for his short stories and poetry on numerous occasions, gaining the accolades of everyone from [[Ramsey Campbell]] to [[Poppy Z Brite]] and accumulating a wildly devoted cult following. His prose has been favorably compared to [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and the Decadent poets of ''fin-de-siècle'' France, and before he even had released his first story collection, the late [[Cthulhu Mythos]] archivist [[Lin Carter]] declared him the [[Spiritual Successor]] to [[HP Lovecraft]].