Noctuary & The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti (Chiroptera Press, 2023) Hardcover

Thomas Ligotti. Noctuary & The Spectral Link. Chiroptera Press, 2023. Art by Paul Romano. Hardcover. 268 pages.  Condition: Fine Description from the publisher: "Chiroptera Press presents Noctuary & The Spectral Link by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, a consolidated volume of two horror collections, brought back into print for the first time in over a decade. This edition from Chiroptera Press follows the success of other high-quality, deluxe Ligotti publications, most recently Ligotti's narrative and lyric poetry tour de force, Pictures of Apocalypse. Noctuary is divided into three sections, following Ligotti’s famous introduction, “In the Night, in the Dark: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction”: Studies in Shadow, Discourse on Blackness, and Notebook of the Night. Section One, Studies in Shadow, begins with "The Medusa,” which follows the protagonist's lifelong obsession with the deadly gorgon of myth, blurring the lines between fiction, metaphor, and reality. "Conversa