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GRIMSCRIBE: HIS LIVES AND WORKS by Thomas Ligotti. Burton, MI; Subterranean Press; 2011. 1st revised/authors preferred/definitive edition thus. OUT OF PRINT. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti’s first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by the same publishers. In the view of many commentators, it was with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his reputation as a horror writer of high stature. As Steven J. Mariconda remarked in a 1992 essay surveying the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: “Of the two collections, Grimscribe achieves near-classic status and is recommended to all.” Included in this volume is “The Last Feast of Harlequin,” a novella that, in the observation of H. P. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi, “may perhaps be the very best homage to Lovecraft ever written.” Like the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer, the first title of Ligotti’s to be published in a revised, definitive edition by Subterranean Press, those presented here in Grimscribe: His Lives and Works have been amended to realize the full artistic aims of the originals rather than to compose new versions of these works. This volume may thus be considered, in the manner of its predecessor in this series, as both as a reissue and the culminating specimen of its master effort of twenty years ago. From SF Signal: “My sense is that Ligotti isn’t kidding, he's not indulging in Lovecratian convention for the sake of paying tribute to the form, that he’s not an otherwise cheery normal guy who likes to write scary depressing stuff for laughs. Rather, he writes because ‘[t]here are those who require witnesses to their doom’ (‘The Dreaming of Nortown’ p. 97). “Go forth and bear witness. If, as the cliché goes, you dare.” Fine in fine dj. OUT OF PRINT FROM THE PUBLISHER. Buyer pays $4.00 Media Mail or $10.90 Priority Mail domestic shipping. Foreign rates figured individually. PLEASE NOTE: due to the scarcity of this title International shipping is ONLY by Expedited (EMS) Mail for $40.00. NO EXCEPTIONS!! International customers PLEASE wait to be invoiced before paying. NOT responsible for any import tax levied by Customs Offices in individual countries.