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Teatro Grottesco
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ISBN13: 9780753513743
Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.01 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
In strange towns and darker places, ordinary lives turn toward terrible ends. In Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti gathers stories about tormented individuals caught in forbidding settings, from odd little towns to shadowed districts frequented by sinister eccentrics. Their worlds are unsettling, and their humor can be as black as the dangers they face.
At the heart of the collection, a cycle of narratives introduces a freakish community of artists whose lives are overtaken by demonic perils. Each story opens onto another disturbing portrait of people and places shaped by dread, strange obsessions, and an inescapable sense of doom. This dark fiction collection is for adult readers drawn to literary horror, uncanny communities, and short stories where menace and macabre comedy meet. What waits in the next town may be stranger--and more dangerous--than anything its inhabitants expect.
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