This is first time the best works of master horror writer Thomas Ligotti have been brought together in a single volume. The title story "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World" is the tale of a small town that is gripped by a kind of existential darkness. Ligotti avoids the explicit violence common in some contemporary fiction, preferring instead to establish an intensely disquieting atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition. Often compared favourably with Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, the "New York Times Book Review" wrote "If there were a literary genre called 'philosophical horror' Thomas Ligotti would easily fit within it".
- ISBN10 1593600585
- ISBN13 9781593600587
- Publish Date 25 October 2005
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 April 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cold Spring Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English