MRS. RINALDI'S ANGEL by Thomas Ligotti

[@Wombats555]

Nice. I've read this one but you have the perfect voice for Ligotti.

[@manifestdust]

Thank you, that's gratifying. 😊

[@johnbernays-b5y]

Thank You Ligotti tales are my favorite

[@FrankJMarr]

This is a fascinating take on dreams.

[@manifestdust]

Yes, exactly why I like it.

[@awnaur0no919]

Happy birthday Tom lol 🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂✨️✨️✨️🎈🎈🎈🎊🎊🎊🎆🎆🎆🎇🎇🎇

[@manifestdust]

@@awnaur0no919 Thanks for being the one to remember! 🥳

[@coeliacmccarthy2191]

a classic. The Town Manager or Purity next please!

[@manifestdust]

Two more on my list now. But there's one more I need to get to first, bc it was one of a pair of suggestions that came in a while back. Spectacles in the Drawer was one. This other I won't name yet; I'm superstitious until I'm actually at work on a reading that something will go wrong with it.... 😆

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

Could someone please explain Thomas Ligotti to me. I have tried and tried and I always feel like I came in halfway through the story.

[@manifestdust]

That could be a tall order, unless we crowd source explanation. First, though: Is your challenge what's happening plot and action-wise? Ligotti has little of these by literary intention.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

@@manifestdust I'm kind of kidding but kind of not. Maybe it's trying to shoehorn him into being a horror writer when weird fiction is a little more apt

[@manifestdust]

@@FrithonaHrududu02127 Ahhh... I get you now, with a dash of salt. You know, this fretting about what is horror & what's weird is quite apt I'm not well versed in the weird yet... but feel it's less explicit and more uncanny in effect. A while back, I commented that. Joel Lane's "The Witnesses Are Gone" shares a theme of elusive forbidden dangerous filmmaking with John Carpenter's mini-film "Cigarette Burns"-- but how they're executed makes Lane's work weird & Carpenter's horror. I think Ligotti mixes both--but not all the time.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

@@manifestdust I just always feel like I missed something. Have you ever read the story Knife Fight by David Nickel? I always thought that had a Ligotti feel to it

[@manifestdust]

@@FrithonaHrududu02127 No, haven't read it. Will look it up today.

[@yer_old_pal_Jerky]

YES! I’ve been waiting for a new Ligotti reading from you for what seems like a long time now! I actually I have a question that I’d like to ask you about a story that I think maybe by Ligotti, But I’m not quite sure. It involves a scientist who has devised some sort of window onto another world, where cat semi humans are located, including very sexually attractive females of the species. This scientist has somehow managed to attract and subdue one of these creatures, bring her through the barrier from her dimension into our. Here, the scientist, drugs, ties her down, and has his way with her. It’s quite grotesque. The person to whom he is showing this set up in his attic is fairly grossed out by the whole deal. Does that ring any kind of bell with you?

[@manifestdust]

Now THAT story rings no bell with me... and as for Ligotti, doesn't really sound like him to me. Can anyone else identify this one from the story setup? I'm surprised the movies haven't snapped it up yet. 😏

[@johnbernays-b5y]

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