Thomas Ligotti

Broschiertes Buch

My Work Is Not Yet Done

Beschreibung

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies.

Autor

Thomas Ligotti was born in Detroit in 1953 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grosse Pointe Woods. He graduated from Wayne State University in 1978. From 1979 to 2001, Ligotti worked for a reference book publisher in the Detroit area, serving as an editor on such titles as Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors. His first collection of stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, was published in 1986, with an expanded version issued three years later. Other collections include Grimscribe (1991), Noctuary (1994), and My Work Is Not Yet Done (2002). Ligotti is the recipient of several awards, including the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker award for his omnibus collection The Nightmare Factory (1996) and short novel My Work Is Not Yet Done. He has also written a nonfiction book, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Short Life of Horror, which comprises an excursion through the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology. A short film of Ligotti's story "The Frolic" was completed in 2006 and is scheduled to appear as a DVD. In addition, through an agreement with Fox Studios' subsidiary Fox Atomic, a graphic novel based his works was released in 2007. For more information visit: http://www.ligotti.net

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Virgin Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 614377
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9780753516881
• ISBN-10: 0753516888
• Artikelnr.: 25009640

Rezensionen

An accomplished conjuror of nightmares in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft The Times