Bibliography

This is a fairly complete list of my published writings. Each section is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Books

Books I’ve written:

  • Transmitting Vision: Essays on the Writer’s Path. Teeming Brain Books, 2023.
  • Journals, Volume 2: 2002-2022. Sarnath Press, 2023.
  • What the Daemon Said: Essays on Horror Fiction, Film, and Philosophy. Hippocampus Press, 2022.
  • Journals, Volume 1: 1993-2001. Sarnath Press, 2022.
  • Hizo de las tinieblas su escondite (He Made Darkness His Hiding Place). Spanish edition of To Rouse Leviathan. Diltando Mentes, 2021.
  • To Rouse Leviathan. Hippocampus Press, 2019.
  • A Course in Demonic Creativity: A Writer’s Guide to the Inner Genius. 2011.
  • Dark Awakenings. Mythos Books, 2010.
  • Divinations of the Deep. Ash-Tree Press, 2002.

Books I’ve edited:

  • Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears. Greenwood, 2017.
  • Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO, 2015.
  • Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in History, Religion, and Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2014.
  • Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti. Subterranean Press, 2014.

Short Fiction

  • “The Daemonolorum.” In The Starry Wisdom Library, edited by Nate Pedersen. PS Publishing, 2014.
  • “Prometheus Possessed.” In Dark Faith: Invocations, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon. Apex Publications, 2012.
  • “Chimeras & Grotesqueries.” In Dark Faith, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon. Apex Books, May 2010.
  • “The New Pauline Corpus.” In Cthulhu’s Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. DAW, April 2010.
  • “Blackbrain Dwarf.” First published in Dark Awakenings.
  • “Desert Places.” In Alone on the Darkside, edited by John Pelan. Roc, 2006.
  • “Nightmares, Imported and Domestic” (written with Mark McLaughlin). In The HWA Presents: Dark Arts, edited by John Pelan. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006.
  • “Sailing into Night” (round robin story). In The Evil Entwines by John B. Ford. Rainfall Books, 2005.
  • “Unfinished Nightmare.” In Dark Lurkers, edited by Paul Melniczek. Double Dragon Books, 2004.
  • “A Cherished Place at the Center of His Plans” (written with Mark McLaughlin). In Hell Is Where the Heart Is, Mark McLaughlin, Medium Rare Books, 2003.
  • “The Stars Shine Without Me.” Published at the website Horrorfind, October 2002. Also in In Delirium II, edited by John Everson, Delirium Books, 2007.
  • The God of Foulness. Published at the website The Art of Grimscribe, March 2002. Also at the website Terror Tales, 2002. Also in the Dark Homage series, Book #5, edited by Shane Ryan Staley, Delirium Books, June 2004.
  • “If It Had Eyes.” First published in Divinations of the Deep.
  • “Judas of the Infinite.” First published in English in Divinations of the Deep. Also published in German translation at the website The Art of Grimscribe, 2002.
  • “The Devil and One Lump.” Published at the website Horrorfind, December 2001. Also in The Best of Horrorfind II, edited by Brian Keene, Horrorfind Publications, 2003. Revised and expanded version published in Dark Awakenings.
  • “The Basement Theater.” Published in the email newsletter Terror Tales, April 2000. Also at the website The Art of Grimscribe, 2000.
  • “An Abhorrence to All Flesh.” Published at the website Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999. Also in German tranlation in Allem Fleisch ein Greuel, edited by Eddie M. Angerhuber and Boris Koch, Medusenblut, 2005.
  • “Notes of a Mad Copyist.” Published at the website Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999. Revised and expanded version published in Divinations of the Deep.
  • “Teeth.” Published at the website Thomas Ligotti Online, 1998. Also in The Children of Cthulhu, edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams, Del Rey, 2002. Revised and expanded version published in Dark Awakenings.

Essays, Papers, and Chapters

  • “ ‘A Formless Shade of Divinity’: Chasing Down the Demiurge in Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Red Tower,’ I Have a Special Plan for This World, and This Degenerate Little Town. Essay published as a booklet of liner notes with the vinyl audio recording The Red Tower, Cadabra Records, 2020.
  • “Icy Bleakness and Killing Sadness: The Desolating Impact of Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Bungalow House.’ ” Essay published as a booklet of liner notes with the vinyl audio recording of “The Bungalow House,” Cadabra Records, 2018. Also in Penumbra No. 1 (Summer 2020).
  • “On the Brink of Evolution” (chapter on fantasy and horror in the 1960s and 1970s). In The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror, consultant editor S. T. Joshi. Flame Tree Publishing, 2018.
  • “Daimon.” In Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures, edited by Joseph Laycock. ABC-CLIO, 2015.
  • “Possession and Exorcism in Literature.” In Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures, edited by Joseph Laycock. ABC-CLIO, 2015.
  • “Nexus of Nightmares: Fuseli, Sleep Paralysis, and Horror’s Master Image.” Published at the website Dream Studies, October 31, 2012
  • “In Search of Higher Intelligence: The Daemonic Muse(s) of Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson.” Paranthropology Vol. 3, No. 4 (October 2012). Also published in Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence, edited by Angela Voss and William Rowlandson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
  • “Things That Should Not Be: The Uncanny Convergence of Religion and Horror.” Nameless Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2012).
  • “Christian Bale.” Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “Dark Knight Returns.” Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “The Avengers (film).” Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “The Hunger Games (film).” Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “The Hunger Games (book).” Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “Neurodelusions or a Doorway in the Brain? The Question of Religious Hardwiring.” In World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “Scientism: The Religion of Science.” In World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “Upgrading God: The Religious Effects of the Internet Revolution.” In World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  • “Religion and Vampires.” In Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, edited by S. T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, 2010.
  • “Gods and Monsters, Worms and Fire: A Horrific Reading of Isaiah”. First published in Dark Awakenings.
  • “Loathsome Objects: George Romero’s Living Dead Films as Contemplative Tools.” First published in Dark Awakenings.
  • “5 Reasons Why You Need a Muse.” Published at the website Lateral Action, September 13, 2010.
  • “Perspiration Meets Inspiration or, The Return of the Muse.” Published at the website Talent Development Resources, March 5, 2010.
  • “Lovecraft’s Longing: Part Two.” Art Throb, October 30, 2009.
  • “Lovecraft’s Longing: Part One.” Art Throb, October 22, 2009.
  • “The Angel and the Demon.” In Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, edited by S.T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, 2006. Revised and expanded version published in Dark Awakenings
  • “There Is No Grand Scheme: From a Life Journal in Progress.” In In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, edited by Olivia Dresher. Impassio Press, 2006.
  • “The Master’s Eyes Shining with Secrets: The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Thomas Ligotti.” Published at the website Thomas Ligotti Online, 2005. Also in Lovecraft Annual #1, October 2007.
  • “Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Shadow at the Bottom of the World.’ ” Published at the website The Art of Grimscribe, 2002. Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.
  • “ ‘Those Sorrows Which Are Sent to Wean Us from the Earth’: The Failed Quest for Enlightenment in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Penny Dreadful #14, December 2001.
  • “Thomas Ligotti’s Career of Nightmares.” Published in the email newsletter Terror Tales, April 2000. Also at the website The Art of Grimscribe, 2002. Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.
  • “The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti’s ‘Nethescurial.’ ” Published at the website Thomas Ligotti Online, April 2000. Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.

Reviews

  • Review of The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness by Alan Watts, Second Edition, with introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). New York Journal of Books, July 12, 2013.
  • Review of Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History by Richard Smoley (2013). New York Journal of Books, February 7, 2013.
  • Review of Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Gothic (2013). New York Journal of Books, January 22, 2013.
  • “Count Dracula (BBC). In Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, edited by S. T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, 2010
  • “Fright Night 1 and 2.” In Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, edited by S. T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, 2010
  • “Mini Collections from Major Talent” (reviews of Impossibilia by Douglas Smith, and Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by Mark Samuels). Dead Reckonings #5, Spring 2009.
  • “Sometimes You Just Have to Gush.” (reviews of Other Gods by Stephen Mark Rainey and The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea). Dead Reckonings, #4, Fall 2008.
  • “Dystopia Now” (reviews of Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti and Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi). Dead Reckonings #3, Spring 2008.
  • Review of Omens by Richard Gavin. Dead Reckonings #2, Fall 2007.
  • “Books into Film and Vice Versa” (reviews of The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli and Darkness Wakes by Tim Waggoner). Dead Reckonings #1, Spring 2007.
  • Review of Judy Allen, Unexplained: An Encyclopedia of Curious Phenomena, Strange Superstitions, and Ancient Mysteries. Strange Horizons, November 22, 2006.
  • “Dreaming the Industrial Future: Simon Logan’s I-O.” Strange Horizons, February 10, 2003.
  • Review of Alex Severin, For the Love of Blood.” Sinisteria, March 2002.
  • Review of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Sinisteria, March 2002.

Interviews