The Collected Short Fiction (v3.2)

This is a near-complete collection of the short fiction and poetry of Thomas Ligotti, presented in chronological order of publication, with the most recently-revised version first. Read each story, then the earlier version, and in some cases versions before that. This is version 3.2, released July 2014 to include the two stories from The Spectral Link, and the vignette The Old Shelters. CONTENTS The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein, Citizen of Geneva Alice's Last Adventure Allen and Adelaide: An Arabesque Autumnal The Dark Beauty Of Unheard-Of Horrors The Bells Will Sound Forever The Blasphemous Enlightenment of Prof. Francis Wayland Thurston of Boston, Providence, and the Human Race The Bungalow House The Career of Nightmares Charnelhouse of the Moon The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe The Chymist The Clown Puppet The Cocoons The Consolations Of Horror Conversations in a Dead Language Crampton The Dark Beauty Of Unheard-Of Horrors Death Poems Death without End This Degenerate Little Town Demonic Horror The Demon Man The Dreaming in Nortown Dream of a Mannikin Dreamworld Horror Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes Dr. Locrian's Asylum Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech Envoi The Eternal Devotion of the Governess to the Residents of Bly The Eternal Mirage The Ever-Vigilant Guardians of Secluded Estates The Excruciating Final Days of Dr. Henry Jekyll, Englishman Exotic Horror Eye of the Lynx The Fabulous Alienation of the Outsider, Being of No Fixed Abode Flowers of the Abyss The Frolic Gas Station Carnivals Ghost Stories for the Dead The Glamour Gothic Horror The Greater Festival of Masks The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God His Shadow Shall Rise to a Higher House I Have a Special Plan for This World The Inquisitor In the Shadow of Another World The Insufferable Salvation of Lawrence Talbot the Wolfman The Interminable Equation The Interminable Residence of the Friends of the House of Usher An Interview With Louis Miguel Riaz The Intolerable Lesson of the Phantom of the Opera Invocation to the Void The Journal of J.P. Drapeau The Last Feast Of Harlequin Les Fleurs The Library of Byzantium The Lost Art of Twilight Macabre Horror Mad Night of Atonement Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets The Mechanical Museum The Medusa Metaphysica Morum Miss Plarr The Mocking Mystery Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel The Music of the Moon My Case for Retributive Action The Mystics of Muelenburg My Work Is Not Yet Done The Nameless Horror Nethescurial New Faces in the City Nightmare Horror The Nightmare Network The Night School Nihilistic Horror Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story Occult Horror The Old Shelters One May Be Dreaming One Thousand Painful Variations Performed Upon Divers Creatures Undergoing the Treatment of Dr. Moreau, Humanist The Order of Illusion Our Temporary Supervisor Paradoxes From Hell The Perilous Legacy of Emily St. Aubert, Inheritress of Udolpho The Physic Prehistoric Horror The Premature Death of H.P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England The Premature Transfiguration Primordial Loathing The Prodigy of Dreams Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror Puppet Horror The Puppet Masters Purity The Real Wolf The Red Tower Salvation by Doom Sardonic Mundane The Scream: from 1800 to the Present The Sect of the Idiot Severini The Shadow at the Bottom of the World The Shadow, The Darkness Sideshow and Other Stories The Small People A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing The Spectacles in the Drawer The Spectral Estate Spectral Horror The Spectral Link (Introduction) The Strange Design of Master Rignolo Suicide By Imagination The Superb Companion of André de V., Anti-Pygmalion Teatro Grottesco Ten Steps to Thin Mountain Things They Will Never Tell You The Town Manager The Transparent Alias of William Wilson, Sportsman and Scoundrel The Troubles of Dr. Thoss The Tsalal The Unbearable Rebirth of the Phantom of the Wax Museum The Unfamiliar The Unholy City The Unnatural Persecution, by a Vampire, of Mr. Jacob J. Unreal Horror Vastarien The Voice in the Bones We Can Hide From Horror Only In The Heart Of Horror: Notes And Aphorisms When You Hear The Singing, You Will Know It Is Time The Worthy Inmate of the Will of the Lady Ligeia