Collects Ligotti’s first 3 story collections (Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, and Noctuary.)

We leave this behind in your capable hands, for in the black-foaming gutters and back alleys of paradise, in the dank windowless gloom of some galactic cellar, in the hollow pearly whorls found in sewerlike seas, in starless cities of insanity, and in their slums . . . my awe-struck little deer and I have gone frolicking. See you anon. Jonathan Doe.

This book is excellent and largely unknown. It’s a collection of short stories, very much like the compendiums of Lovecraft and Poe. I know those two comparisons are done to death but really, nobody in the history of “weird fiction” as we know it comes close to Ligotti’s distinctive combination of suggestive suspense (as classic as Hitchcock) and highly lyrical prose (as lovely as T.S. Eliot).