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This story "The trouble of Dr. Thoss" There’s something deeply wrong about it.
It reads like a basic story with an unimaginative ending and a generic monster, yet leaves you feeling something is amiss. As if the plot didn’t generate the horror, but the horror generated a basic plot, without ever alluding to what the horror actually is.
It’s incredibly subtle. Never read something quite like it, impressive.
— 11 hours, 36 min ago
It reads like a basic story with an unimaginative ending and a generic monster, yet leaves you feeling something is amiss. As if the plot didn’t generate the horror, but the horror generated a basic plot, without ever alluding to what the horror actually is.
It’s incredibly subtle. Never read something quite like it, impressive.
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David Vega Burgos
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There's not a single bad story in this anthology so far.
— Jul 05, 2026 01:01PM
David Vega Burgos
is 16% done
These are more thought provoking than spooky. The atmosphere is not as intense as I was hoping, either. I hope the first story wasn't just a hook and that it isn't all downhill from there. Although I do like thinking deeply more than being spooked, if I'm only going to think deeply, there are more thought provoking reads out there.
— Jun 15, 2026 08:32PM
David Vega Burgos
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This guy Ligotti can really prose. The first story in this collection had me bent over the pages. I knew what was coming from a kilometer away, but I stayed anyway because I felt like I was there, in the house.
I've had more than enough of those fucking otherworldly cities after Chambers, Poe, and Lovecraft, though. But what am I to do about it... I like the stories in this anthology.
— Jun 13, 2026 04:00PM
I've had more than enough of those fucking otherworldly cities after Chambers, Poe, and Lovecraft, though. But what am I to do about it... I like the stories in this anthology.
