Some writers haunt entire landscapes with their visions: Peter Ackroyd’s London, Joel Lane’s Birmingham. All the same, urban weirdness – however we might define it – is rarer. You’ll know it when you see it. Its two modern masters are Thomas Ligotti and Mark Samuels. Each has transformed the big city into something profoundly personal yet uncannily recognisable… There are echoes of Lovecraft in some of the tales, and in “A Gentleman from Mexico” Samuels writes a full-scale tribute. It respects the man’s philosophy in a way that very few Lovecraft imitations do – but then, this isn’t one; it’s a cosmic distance from the kind of slavish pastiche referred to in the tale...
Ten critically acclaimed weird fiction stories by the author of The White Hands And Other Weird Tales, The Face Of Twilight, The Man Who Collected Machen and Written In Darkness.
