![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly because I don’t believe in one meaning for us all but rather, that we all are responsible for creating meaning in our own lives and therefore I find the idea that life in general is meaningless to be … well … wrong. Thomas Ligotti definitely writes horror of the latter kind and though he tries to show the bleakness of existence, the purposelessness of it all as well as the shadows and blackness that controls us, I don’t find it horrifying. As I understand it, horror either deals with creepy-crawleys (some with tentacles) or with some kind of more existential horror, roughly said. I dislike watching horror movies and the only horror I read, are Stephen King – if you can even call him a horror writer. ![]() So I really don’t know much about horror. “You and all the others were nothing but pawns in a struggle between forces you could not conceive.” (p. ![]()
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