The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 2 by Thomas Ligotti

He perfectly expresses the 'disorienting strangeness' that is the hallmark of the weird ' from The New York Times Book Review: 'If there were a literary genre called 'philosophical horror,' Thomas Ligotti's (From The New York Review of Science Fiction: 'Ligotti is probably the genre's most committed Reviewers have written glowingly of his books, and his publisher has mined these reviews for blurbs.

Nevertheless, he has produced a substantial body of fiction that has generated a passionately devoted fan base, and his work has been soundly praised by critics and readers alike. Probably more people are acquainted with him unawares through his editorial work for The Gale Group (the company for which he has worked for the past twenty years, and which publishes such library mainstays as the Contemporary Authors series) than are acquainted with his stories. This reputation has grown up around him over a period of twenty years, during which time he has remained paradoxically obscure in the mainstream literary consciousness, and even, astonishingly, among some segments of horror fandom. Thomas Ligotti is arguably the preeminent living writer of horror fiction.

The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 2 by Thomas Ligotti