Thomas Ligotti's Revised Grimscribe on the Market

Subterranean Press just put their latest Thomas Ligotti item on the market, a revised edition of Grimscribe, due in early 2011. Right now, pre-orders for the limited edition are only open to those who have already bought the previous revised volume. The slightly less spectacular trade hardcover is available to all buyers. Like the definitive Songs of a Dead Dreamer released earlier this year, Grimscribe will contain highly polished versions of the book's original contents. According to Thomas Ligotti, the four revised volumes planned by Subterranean Press will together collect his most celebrated stories in their final form. Grimscribe contains the following pieces: "Introduction";  The Voice of the Damned:  "The Last Feast of Harlequin";  "The Spectacles in the Drawer";  "Flowers of the Abyss";  "Nethescurial";  The Voice of the Demon:  "The Dreaming in Nortown";  "The Mystics of Muelenburg";  "In the Shadow of Another World";  "The Cocoons";  The Voice of the Dreamer:  "The Night School";  "The Glamour";  The Voice of the Child:  "The Library of Byzantium";  "Miss Plarr";  The Voice of Our Name:  "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World".

By the time the revised Noctuary and Teatro Grottesco appear in the next few years, a revolution in Ligottian availability will have occurred. Assuming Subterranean continues to release one book annually, all of Ligotti's oeuvre--save for a few vanished pieces in obscure journals--will be back in print. Virgin has already reprinted Teatro Grottesco and My Work Is Not Yet Done in paperback.

Of course, Subterranean's Ligotti books do sell out. Yet, even if all the revised volumes are snatched up by collectors, it's not difficult to imagine paperbacks or perhaps even something on the order of The Nightmare Factory (a massive out-of-print paperback that collects nearly all Ligotti tales) appearing after all the revised versions have been released.

-Grim Blogger