Celebrated for the daunting intensity of their bizarre visions, Ligotti's tales run the full gamut of horror fiction, from the exotic and surreal to the domestic terrors populating every child's--and parent's--nightmares. In between are the unnerving revelations of what we believe to be reality.

Contents:
• The Frolic
• Les Fleurs
• Alice’s Last Adventure
• Dream of a Mannikin, or the Third Person
• The ‘Chymist
• Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes
• Eye of the Lynx
• Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story
• The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise
• The Lost Art of Twilight
• The Troubles of Dr. Thoss
• Masquerade of a Dead Sword
• Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech
• Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror
• Dr. Locrian’s Asylum
• The Sect of the Idiot
• The Greater Festival of Masks
• The Music of the Moon
• The Journal of J.P. Drapeau
• Vastarien