In addition, through an agreement with Fox Studios' subsidiary Fox Atomic, a graphic novel based his works was released in 2007. A short film of Ligotti's story 'The Frolic' was completed in 2006 and is scheduled to appear as a DVD. He has also written a nonfiction book, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Short Life of Horror, which comprises an excursion through the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology. Ligotti is the recipient of several awards, including the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker award for his omnibus collection The Nightmare Factory (1996) and short novel My Work Is Not Yet Done. Other collections include Grimscribe (1991), Noctuary (1994), and My Work Is Not Yet Done (2002). On-going youth, semi-professional and professional training along with open rehearsals displaying an intricate, deliberate and classically informed artistic process are attended by the city’s most promising and upcoming artists. His first collection of stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, was published in 1986, with an expanded version issued three years later. Grottesco is now a leader in the Santa Fe performing arts community. From 1979 to 2001, Ligotti worked for a reference book publisher in the Detroit area, serving as an editor on such titles as Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors. He graduated from Wayne State University in 1978. His writings are rooted in several literary genres most prominently weird fiction and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. Thomas Ligotti was born in Detroit in 1953 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grosse Pointe Woods. Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror writer.

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