NOCTUARY AND THE SPECTRAL LINK

First Chiroptera Press edition and first collected edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in silver to the spine, in the Paul Romano illustrated dustwrapper. Includes full page black and white illustrations by Paul Romano with chapter headings. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with original pictorial dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

This first collected edition of Ligotti's horror writing comprises 'Noctuary' (1994), and 'The Spectral Link' (2014). Ligotti was notably influenced by other pioneers of the horror writing, weird fiction, and nihilism genres of literature, including Lovecraft, Schopenhauer, Poe, Burroughs, Nabokov, and Machen. In a 2006 interview published in The New York Review of Science Fiction (Issue 218, Vol.19, No. 2), Ligotti's philosophical horror-style and influences were affectionately explained, 'When [Ligotti] says he writes horror, he means he writes from the center of what he knows best as a human being, and this is what elevates him to the status of a true literary artist. [...] In the process of assimilating and responding to all of these [influences], Ligotti has developed a unique style that places him firmly in the "literary" category and, in tandem with the dark vibrancy of his personal vision, makes him one of those transformative writers whose work can explode into a reader's life like an eruption from the collective unconscious' (Cardin, 2006).