I have now moved all of my blogging activity over to The Living Dark, where I continue to pursue many of the core themes and interests that drove The Teeming Brain for 16 years. Chief among these is the intersection of creativity and calling at the intersection of nonduality and the daemon muse. Join me…
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The Best Thomas Ligotti Story You’ve (Probably) Never Read
Thomas Ligotti’s “Ghost Stories for the Dead” first appeared in 1982 in the second issue of the small press horror magazine Grimoire. It opened with an epigraph drawn from E. M. Cioran: “That faint light in each of us which dates back before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if…
Teeming Links – April 12, 2019
We currently live in divided and divisive times. Lately (meaning for the past two and a half years), I’ve been reading deeply in the literature about leadership for the PhD that I’m now close to finishing. And I’m here to say that it seems to me the following words from Robert Greenleaf’s classic 1970s essay…
Sample of Cadabra Records’ Audio LP of Ligotti’s “The Bungalow House”
Cadabra Records is currently accepting preorders for their lush audio production of “The Bungalow House,” which is one of my (and indeed one of most readers’) favorite stories by Thomas Ligotti. The above sample allows you to hear what the whole thing sounds like. Hint: It sounds incredibly lush and wonderful. The published album will…