VoidPhil

Thomas Ligotti's two short-story collections, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, are indispensable reading for fans of weird fiction. Ligotti's work is not only influential in fiction, but also in philosophy, where the speculative realism and accelerationist communities frequently quote his works. I chose to read Ligotti after seeing his work referenced in a work by Ray Brassier, one of the key members of the speculative realist movement. Ligotti is one of (as of 2015) only ten living authors to have his works collected in a Penguin Classics volume.