Thomas Ligotti's career of nightmares / Matt Cardin -- Weird tales talks with Thomas Ligotti / Darrell Schweitzer -- The mystagogue, the gnostic quest, the secret book / Robert M. Price -- Nothing is what it seems to be / Stefan R. Dziemianowicz -- Disillusionment can be glamorous : an interview with Thomas Ligotti / E.M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner -- The transition from literary horror to existential nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's "Nethescurial" / Matt Cardin -- The dark beauty of unheard of horrors / Thomas Ligotti -- Liminal terror and collective identity in Thomas Ligotti's "The shadow at the bottom of the world" / Matt Cardin -- Twilight twilight nihil nihil : Thomas Ligotti and the post-industrial English underground / William Burns -- Soft black star : some thoughts on knowing Thomas Ligotti / David Tibet -- The dream quest of Thomas Ligotti : a study of "In a foregin town, in a foreign land" / Ben P. Indick -- Ligotti's corporate horror / Darrell Schweitzer -- Thomas Ligotti : escape from life / S.T. Joshi -- A Thomas Ligotti bibliography / Douglas Anderson.