Critical opinion of Ligotti has generally been favorable.
The New York Times Book Review: "If there were a literary genre called 'philosophical horror,' Thomas Ligotti's Grimscribe would easily fit within it...provocative images and a style that is both entertaining and lyrical;" [3]
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Ligotti attended Macomb County Community College between 1971 and 1973 and graduated from Wayne State University in 1977.
Often favorably compared to Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft, Ligotti began his publishing career in the early 1980s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines.
His unique and affecting tales gathered a small following. Ligotti's relative anonymity and reclusiveness led to speculation about his identity: Was Ligotti a pseudonym used by ...
