The ultimate in subtle horror... Ligotti tells these stories with an eerie, elegant style whose words emphasize the strange as much as the events do.

Contents:

  • In the Night, In the Dark: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction (Foreword)

Part One: Studies in Shadow

  • The Medusa
  • Conversations in a Dead Language
  • The Prodigy of Dreams
  • Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel

Part Two:  Discourse on Blackness

  • The Tsalal
  • Mad Night of Atonement
  • The Strange Design of Master Rignolo
  • The Voice in the Bones

Part Three:  Notebook of the Night

  • The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets
  • Salvation by Doom
  • New Faces in the City
  • Autumnal
  • One May Be Dreaming
  • Death without End
  • The Unfamiliar
  • The Career of Nightmares
  • The Physic
  • The Demon Man
  • The Puppet Masters
  • The Spectral Estate
  • Primordial Loathing
  • The Nameless Horror
  • Invocation to the Void
  • The Mocking Mystery
  • The Interminable Equation
  • The Eternal Mirage
  • The Order of Illusion
Published
1994
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