Something is not right in this world

"Teatro Grottesco" gathered, so far as I know, especially later stories of Thomas Ligotti. In addition to the cover story are important works such as "The Clown Puppet", "The Red Tower" (the latter won the Bram Stoker Award for best novel of the year 1997), the series "In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Country" "Gas Station Carnivals", "The Bungalow House" and others in this volume.
Ligotti is assigned to the horror genre, and actually work through his stories many motifs from this area (eg there is a malicious clown doll, a kind of reverse cemetery and an abstruse human-animal beings), but this is done in such an unusual way that it is really hard Ligotti assign a place in the traditional genre list of literature.
Reading the stories I had always felt that my soil is pulled out from under their feet. Ligottis characters live in a world in which nothing seems to have a sense in which gruesome nonsense to even grausigeren nonsense piles. Hallucinations, schizophrenia and madness are the consequences. Often do not know the figures, as they actually are broken (see, "gas station Carnival" and "Purity") and understand it sometimes not until the very end (see "The Bungalow House", by the way my favorite story); this uncomprehended madness is, I believe, the central theme of the stories in this volume. Whether everything is hard to decide occurs only in the inner life of the characters, or indeed in the outside world, and probably supposed to be that way. What the horror really unless can be conceived truly neither the figures nor the reader.
Ligotti you should read in English by the way necessarily, as the German translations (as I have found) are often missed. For this purpose, this cost-effective tape offers very good, especially the earlier collections of short stories Ligottis often only used and are not to have exactly cheap. Anyone who appreciates Genre-busting horror stories in powerful, lyrical language, may access.
There are only two things in the book that bother me a bit: it can be found not have first editions of the stories and the printer font color smears easily when you move your finger over it. But I think that these two flaws are compensated by the low price and the quality of the stories.