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Thomas Ligotti, né le à Détroit dans le Michigan, est un écrivain américain, d'inspiration gothique, producteur d'une importante œuvre d'épouvante, d'horreur philosophique, dans l'esprit de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La publication en 2014 d'un recueil de nouvelles choisies, Chants du cauchemar et de la nuit (éditions Dystopia, 2014), permet au lectorat français de découvrir l'univers de cet auteur très secret.
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The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales (1994),
The Nightmare Factory (1996), l'essentiel des trois premières publications, avec quelques nouvelles histoires,
In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land (1997, avec CD de Current 93)
I Have a Special Plan for This World (2000, avec CD de Current 93)
This Degenerate Little Town (2001, avec CD de Current 93)
My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror (2002)
Crampton: A Screenplay (2003, with Brandon Trenz)
Sideshow, and Other Stories (2003)
Death Poems (2004)
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World (2005)
Teatro Grottesco (2006, reprinted in 2008)
The Conspiracy against the Human Race (2010)
The Spectral Link (2014)
Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (2014), edited by Matt Cardin
Nouvelles, scénarios, poèmes, etc
The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, Citizen of Geneva
Alice's Last Adventure
Allan and Adelaide—An Arabesque
Autumnal
The Bells Will Sound Forever
The Blasphemous Enlightenment of Prof. Francis Wayland Thurston of Boston, Providence, and the Human Race
The Blonde: A Sonnet [under the pseudonym Frank Santino]
The Bungalow House
The Career of Nightmares
Charnel House of the Moon
The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe
The Chymist
The Clown Puppet
The Cocoons
The Complete Madman [under the pseudonym Charles Miguel Riaz]
Conversations in a Dead Language
Crampton [by Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz] [Unproduced screenplay written 1998, for an episode of The X-Files]
Death without End
The Decayed Mystic [under the pseudonym Charles Miguel Riaz]
The Demon Man
The Deranged Poet [under the pseudonym Charles Miguel Riaz]
Dr. Locrian's Asylum
Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech
Dream of a Mannikin
The Dreaming in Nortown
Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes
The Dwarf by Aloysius Bertrand, translated by Thomas Ligotti
The Eternal Devotion of the Governess to the Residents of Bly
The Eternal Mirage
The Ever-Vigilant Guardians of Secluded Estates
Envoi
The Excruciating Final Days of Dr. Henry Jekyll, Englishman
Eye of the Lynx
The Fabulous Alienation of the Outsider, Being of No Fixed Abode
Flowers of the Abyss
The Frolic
Gas Station Carnivals
The Glamour
The Greater Festival of Masks
The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendent of Attila, Scourge of God
His Shadow Shall Rise to a Higher House
I Have a Special Plan for This World [short story]
I Have a Special Plan for This World [verse]
In the Shadow of Another World
The Insufferable Salvation of Lawrence Talbot the Wolfman
The Interminable Equation
The Interminable Residence of the Friends of the House of Usher
The Intolerable Lesson of the Phantom of the Opera
"Introduction" [to Grimscribe]
Invocation to the Void
The Journal of J. P. Drapeau
The Last Feast of Harlequin
The Library of Byzantium
The Lost Art of Twilight
Mad Night of Atonement
The Madman, by Aloysius Bertrand, translated by Thomas Ligotti
Masquerade of a Dead Sword
The Masters Eyes Shining with Secrets
The Mechanical Museum [by John B. Ford and Thomas Ligotti]
The Medusa
Metaphysica Morum
Michigan Basement [by Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz]
Miss Plarr
The Mocking Mystery
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel
The Murderer, by Gaston Danville, translated by Thomas Ligotti
The Music of the Moon
My Case for Retributive Action
My Work Is Not Yet Done
The Mystics of Muelenburg
The Nameless Horror
Nethescurial
New Faces in the City
The Night School
The Nightmare Network
Notebook of the Night
Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story
One May Be Dreaming
One Thousand Painful Variations Performed upon Divers Creatures Undergoing the Treatment of Dr. Moreau, Humanist
The Order of Illusion
Our Temporary Supervisor
The Perilous Legacy of Emily St. Aubert, Inheritress of Udolpho
The Physic
Postscript [under the pseudonym Charles Miguel Riaz]
The Premature Death of H. P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England
Primordial Loathing
The Prodigy of Dreams
Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror
The Puppet Masters
Purity
The Real Wolf
The Red Tower
Sailing into Night [A round-robin with sixteen other authors]
Salvation by Doom
The Small People
Sardonic Mundane [as by Louis Miguel Riaz]
The Scream: From 1800 to the Present
The Sect of the Idiot
Severini
The Shadow, The Darkness
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
Sideshow and Other Stories
A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing
Some Things They Will Never Tell You [verse]
The Spectacles in the Drawer
The Spectral Estate
The Strange Design of Master Rignolo
The Striken Philosopher [under the pseudonym Charles Miguel Riaz]
The Superb Companion of Andre de V., Anti-Pygmalion
Teatro Grottesco
Ten Steps to Thin Mountain
Things They Will Never Tell You
This Degenerate Little Town
The Town Manager
The Transparent Alias of William Wilson, Sportsman and Scoundrel
The Troubles of Dr. Thoss
The Tsalal
The Unbearable Rebirth of the Phantom of the Wax Museum
The Unfamiliar
The Unholy City [verse]
The Unnatural Persecution, by a Vampire, of Mr. Jacob J.
Vastarien
The Voice in the Bones
What Becomes of the Body [verse]
What Happens to Faces" [verse]
What Good Is Your Head?" [verse]
When You Hear the Singing, You Will Know It Is Time
The Worthy Inmate of the Will of the Lady Ligeia
En français
Recueils
Chants du cauchemar et de la nuit, Dystopia, 2014, trad.Anne-Sylvie Hommassel
Mon travail n'est pas terminé. Et autres contes d'horreur en entreprise, traduit par Fabien Courtal, Broye, Éditions Monts métallifères, 2023 (ISBN9782957705474).
Nouvelles isolées
La Dernière aventure d'Alice, 1990(Alice's Last Adventure, 1988), trad.Jean-Daniel Brèque
in 13 histoires diaboliques, Albin Michel
L'Œil du lynx, 1998(Eye of the Lynx, 1983), trad.Thierry Sandalijan
in 21 nouvelles histoires de sexe et d'horreur, Albin Michel
La Secte du dieu fou, 1999(The Sect of the Idiot, 1988), trad.Eric Holweck
in Le Cycle d'Azatoth, Oriflam
Ombre et obscurité, 1999(The Shadow, the Darkness, 1999), trad.Claudine Richetin
in 999, Albin Michel
L'Autre festival des masques, 1999(The Greater Festival Of Masks, 1986), trad.Yes Meynard
in Solaris n°128
Bibliographie
(en) Matt Cardin, «The Master’s Eyes Shining with Secrets: H.P. Lovecraft's Influence on Thomas Ligotti», Lovecraft Annual, New York, Hippocampus Press, no1, , p.94-125 (ISBN7-7745-7113-2, JSTOR26868361).
(en) John Langan, «Thomas Ligotti's Metafictional Mapping: The Allegory of « The Last Feast of Harlequin »», Lovecraft Annual, New York, Hippocampus Press, no1, , p.126-144 (ISBN7-7745-7113-2, JSTOR26868362).