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• 9 • Introduction (The Thomas Ligotti Reader) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• 12 • Thomas Ligotti's Career of Nightmares • essay by Matt Cardin
• 23 • Weird Tales Talks with Thomas Ligotti • (1991) • interview of Thomas Ligotti • interview by Darrell Schweitzer
• 32 • The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book • (1988) • essay by Robert M. Price
• 38 • Nothing Is What It Seems to Be • (1988) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz [as by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz]
• 53 • Disillusionment Can Be Glamorous: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti • interview of Thomas Ligotti • interview by Eddie M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner [as by E. A. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner]
• 72 • The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's "Nethescurial" • essay by Matt Cardin
• 78 • The Dark Beauty of Unheard Horrors • [Erich Zann] • (1992) • essay by Thomas Ligotti
• 85 • Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World" • essay by Matt Cardin
• 101 • Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil: Thomas Ligotti and the Post-Industrial English Underground • essay by William Burns
• 111 • Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti • essay by David Tibet
• 116 • The Dream Quest of Thomas Ligotti: A Study of "In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land" • essay by Ben P. Indick
• 127 • Ligotti's Corporate Horror • (2003) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• 135 • Thomas Ligotti: Escape from Life • (1993) • essay by S. T. Joshi
• 154 • A Thomas Ligotti Bibliography • essay by Douglas A. Anderson [as by Douglas Anderson]
• 180 • Contributors (The Thomas Ligotti Reader) • essay by uncredited