Thomas Ligotti is the only horror writer to be published in the prestigious Penguin Classics series during his lifetime, thereby officially being included in the American literary canon. He is often called the true successor to Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Lovecraft, and his works have been compared to the stories of Franz Kafka, Bruno Schultz and Vladimir Nabokov. Ligotti's books influenced many writers, inspired the first season of True Detective, and served as the basis for the monologues of Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle. Disintegrating cities, other spaces, ancient and unknowable horror, exquisite prose and a cracking reality, in the cracks of which you can see the true darkness of the abyss - these are the stories of Thomas Ligotti, a living legend of horror.