It wasn't an easy process to pick the final four, I can say that much. Mariconda provides what I think is a very succinct and pointed summation of Ligotti's style when he writes in "Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction," "Ligotti is resoundingly successful in convincing us that everywhere behind the common facade of life are other, sinister realms of entity more 'real' than that through which we so blithely move." As such, his style eschews the recent 'blood and guts' trend in horror in favor of the horror of the mind or the horror of the unseen/unknown, which I find to be much more menacing overall. Lovecraft, in that Ligotti's writing is grounded in the cerebral, not the visceral. Locrian's Asylum," and Teatro Grottesco." What's particularly intriguing about this project is that Ligotti isn't a household name to most mainstream horror fans in fact, "The Washington Post" called him, "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction." His work is more akin to writers such as Edgar Allan Poe or H.P. "The Nightmare Factory" graphic novel adapts four of Ligotti's short stories: "The Last Feast of Harlequin," "Dream of a Mannikin," "Dr.
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