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Chiroptera Press presents Noctuary & The Spectral Link by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, a consolidated volume of two horror collections, back in print after over a decade.
Noctuary is divided into three sections, following Ligotti’s introduction, “In the Night, in the Dark: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction.” The first section, Studies in Shadow, begins with “The Medusa,” blurring lines between fiction, metaphor, and reality. “Conversations in a Dead Language” chronicles a mailman’s Halloween nights leading to doom, while “The Prodigy of Dreams” features Arthur Emerson’s answered prayers to an obscure god. “Mrs. Rinaldi’s Angel” involves a child’s nightmares and dubious supernatural assistance.
Discourse on Blackness, the second section, starts with “The Tsalal,” an apocalyptic novelette set in Moxton, introducing Andrew Maness and an ancient power. “Mad Night of Atonement” presents a scientist’s invention channeling the Creator’s power, and “The Strange Design of Master Rignolo” follows a visual artist’s descent into madness. “The Voice in the Bones” evokes a surreal prison.
The third section, Notebook of the Night, features twenty vignettes exploring insidious exploits, esoteric rituals, and hymns to the void.
The Spectral Link, Ligotti’s most recent collection, emerged after his near-death experience. “Metaphysica Morum” channels the rage and despair of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. The volume ends with “The Small People,” a poignant masterpiece exploring the uncanny terror of existence.
Narrated by Jon Padgett, a renowned voice in the world of weird fiction. Padgett, an accomplished author, is celebrated for his haunting narrations, particularly his work on Ligotti’s Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe (Penguin).
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Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk, where winged leeches blast angry static, where black magic casts a shadow over a cringing populace. You've tuned in to WXXT. The fracture in the stanchion. The drop of blood in your morning milk. The viper in the veins of the Pioneer Valley.
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Bartlett's Awesome - Padgett Makes Him Even Better
- By Michael Hicks on 12-18-19
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The Secret of Ventriloquism
- By: Jon Padgett
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine, heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent. With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both.
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Stunning Modern Weird!
- By BadgerJoeTats on 03-15-17
By: Jon Padgett
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Nottuario
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Alberto Caneva
- Length: 8 hrs
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C'è un ragazzo infetto dei suoi sogni, che finisce tra le grinfie di una strega, come nella migliore tradizione dei fratelli Grimm. E quale strana creatura fatta di stracci si trascina sul pavimento di una casa disabitata, anelando alla libertà?
By: Thomas Ligotti
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Cold, Black & Infinite
- Stories of the Horrific & Strange
- By: Todd Keisling
- Narrated by: Dave Robison
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coalesce. This is where the lonely and lost face their demons, where anxious paranoias are made manifest, and where mundane evil wears a human face. For listeners, the sixteen stories found within Cold, Black, & Infinite serve as a harrowing glimpse into the nightmarish imagination of Todd Keisling, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Devil’s Creek and Scanlines.
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Unique premises with subtle and clever execution
- By writing.reader on 09-17-24
By: Todd Keisling
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Hate House
- Encyclopocalypse Originals
- By: John C. Foster
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Reclusive investigator Megan French is lured from isolation by a mysterious client who wants her to investigate the infamous Hate House. Too late, she discovers Hate House isn't a job, it's a trap. Gaslighted and manipulated, French is caught in an elaborate revenge plot seeking to unbalance her mind before framing her for a horrible crime.
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Descriptive writing and gripping narration.
- By MelKayBen on 09-23-24
By: John C. Foster
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
- By: Thomas Ligotti, Jeff VanderMeer - foreword
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett, Linda Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.
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Incredible!
- By Erik McHatton on 02-27-23
By: Thomas Ligotti, and others
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Gateways to Abomination
- By: Matthew M. Bartlett
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk, where winged leeches blast angry static, where black magic casts a shadow over a cringing populace. You've tuned in to WXXT. The fracture in the stanchion. The drop of blood in your morning milk. The viper in the veins of the Pioneer Valley.
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Bartlett's Awesome - Padgett Makes Him Even Better
- By Michael Hicks on 12-18-19
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The Secret of Ventriloquism
- By: Jon Padgett
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine, heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent. With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both.
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Stunning Modern Weird!
- By BadgerJoeTats on 03-15-17
By: Jon Padgett
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Nottuario
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Alberto Caneva
- Length: 8 hrs
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C'è un ragazzo infetto dei suoi sogni, che finisce tra le grinfie di una strega, come nella migliore tradizione dei fratelli Grimm. E quale strana creatura fatta di stracci si trascina sul pavimento di una casa disabitata, anelando alla libertà?
By: Thomas Ligotti
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Cold, Black & Infinite
- Stories of the Horrific & Strange
- By: Todd Keisling
- Narrated by: Dave Robison
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coalesce. This is where the lonely and lost face their demons, where anxious paranoias are made manifest, and where mundane evil wears a human face. For listeners, the sixteen stories found within Cold, Black, & Infinite serve as a harrowing glimpse into the nightmarish imagination of Todd Keisling, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Devil’s Creek and Scanlines.
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Unique premises with subtle and clever execution
- By writing.reader on 09-17-24
By: Todd Keisling
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Hate House
- Encyclopocalypse Originals
- By: John C. Foster
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Reclusive investigator Megan French is lured from isolation by a mysterious client who wants her to investigate the infamous Hate House. Too late, she discovers Hate House isn't a job, it's a trap. Gaslighted and manipulated, French is caught in an elaborate revenge plot seeking to unbalance her mind before framing her for a horrible crime.
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Descriptive writing and gripping narration.
- By MelKayBen on 09-23-24
By: John C. Foster
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Song for the Unravelling of the World
- Stories
- By: Brian Evenson
- Narrated by: Mauro Hantman
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not.
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Short but satisfying
- By Prometheus on 10-28-23
By: Brian Evenson
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In That Endlessness, Our End
- By: Gemma Files
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Neil Hellegers, Steven Jay Cohen, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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Hot on the heels of her 2018 This Is Horror Award–winning short story collection Spectral Evidence, critically horror author Gemma Files compiles fifteen more of her most startling recent nightmares—a creepily seductive downward spiral of dark poetry and existential dread, entirely suitable to the slow apocalypse going on all around us. So take your mind off your troubles and send it somewhere the rules still operate, if only to punish those who violate them.
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Solid collection, if a bit repetitive
- By DP on 08-13-24
By: Gemma Files
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Teatro grottesco
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Alberto Caneva
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Autore di culto della letteratura americana contemporanea, restio alle attenzioni dei media ma autenticamente seminale - suoi gli incubi che hanno ispirato la prima stagione di "True Detective" -, Thomas Ligotti è unanimamente considerato l'unico, grande successore di Edgar Allan Poe e H.P. Lovecraft.
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Not in English.....
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-23
By: Thomas Ligotti
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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
- By: John Langan
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs
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John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of twenty-first century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.
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Finally more John Langan in audiobook form
- By Anonymous User on 09-10-23
By: John Langan
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Fugue State
- Stories
- By: Brian Evenson
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Brian Evenson’s hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime’s imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the horror contained within our daily lives.
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Maybe I just didn't get it?
- By Zach Hafner on 05-03-24
By: Brian Evenson
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The Ojanox I: Scream in the Dark
- The Ojanox Series, Book 1
- By: Daemon Manx
- Narrated by: JP Adams
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1979. A small New York town prepares to welcome the fall season in all the expected ways: young children bicker and boast over Halloween costumes, secret lovers meet in clandestine corners, and a tortured soul plots wicked deeds. All the while, hidden just out of view, patient and hungry… an ancient evil lurks.
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Love the nostalgic Halloween vibes
- By Alli on 09-25-24
By: Daemon Manx
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Red Inside
- By: Bridgett Nelson
- Narrated by: John Wayne Comunale
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Bethany can’t wait for the end of her hospital shift – four glorious days of relaxation await. Secretly, she’s most excited about the fun-filled nights reveling in an unexpected flirtation with her co-worker, Michelle. Thoughts of her long, cozy weekend vanish, however, when Francisco Delgado is admitted to her floor from the emergency room. Delgado, a man who came into contact with an unknown arachnid species in South America, and who now has something…squirming…beneath his skin.
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The Scream I Scrumpt
- By Kindle Customer on 09-05-24
By: Bridgett Nelson
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American Morons
- By: Glen Hirshberg
- Narrated by: Erin Bateman
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.
By: Glen Hirshberg
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In the Dust of This Planet
- Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
- By: Eugene Thacker
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.
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Interesting jumble, ending on a hopeful note
- By Jeffrey D on 01-03-21
By: Eugene Thacker
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The Strange
- By: Nathan Ballingrud
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father’s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher, as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked.
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Beautiful prose, good setting, flavorless and derivative and plodding plot.
- By BookWorm on 05-10-23
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The Wavering Knife
- Stories
- By: Brian Evenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to listeners of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it.
By: Brian Evenson
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A Dark and Endless Sea
- By: Blaine Daigle
- Narrated by: Alex Knox
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Whitt Rogers has been dreaming. Horrible dreams. Dreams that stretch the very fabric of the real and the unreal as he is pulled by a voice across the country to a small crab fishing ship set to depart into the Bering Sea. At sea, the memories piece themselves together in cracked fragments. But there is something out there, something speaking to Whitt in his dreams. A voice from a long-forgotten memory that promises peace at the cost of madness. A voice that leads to a place unimaginable and inescapable.
By: Blaine Daigle
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- O.
- 09-26-24
The Deeply Weird Midnight Master
Finally! Very happy to see this audiobook. Ligotti is to horror what J.G. Ballard was to psychological science fiction. Narrator Padgett, also a fine weird fictioneer, does a great job bringing his friend's work to creepy life--but with all due respect, I must say that he sounds a bit like the math teacher on South Park. The erudition behind the work and the presentation is never flaunted. Ligotti is something different--with its own black perfection (like the 1979 Alien movie). Get in a horror-psychology mood and fly off into the night with these voices of the Void.
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- Karl Haikara
- 08-03-24
Excellent audio book of a classic!
Jon Padgett is the man for Ligotti audio books, I highly recommend picking this up along with the hard copy printed by Chiroptera if you're a fan of Ligotti, and if you're just starting out with Ligotti I do feel like this book would be a good place to start. Essential for any weird fiction or horror fiction afficionado.
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