Between the cracks of the strange: Thomas Ligotti and macabre unrealism
Abstract
This study will begin by locating Thomas Ligotti within the literature of the strange, a genre that, today, is threatened by its own writers involved in a consumerist and capitalist system. Subsequently, emphasis will be placed on the relationship between Lovecraft and Ligotti, analyzing how Ligotti connects with 20th century Lovecraftian fiction, recovering the true narrative myth and, from this, a macabre unrealism constitutive of the literature of the strange of the 21st century.
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