"Naught Thought" on Nature, Ligotti, and Lovecraft

The blog "Naught Thought" recently featured the first of what seems to be several planned entries dealing with the more mentally taxing aspects of certain weird authors. It contains several well selected quotes from Thomas Ligotti, and centers on that author's horror of Nature, as well as tangential glances at the same theme running through works by H.P. Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson. Anyone who has read Ligotti stories like "Severini" are struck by the claustrophobic terror of the naturalistic scenes. Ligotti's descriptions of humid jungles, animals, and overwhelming greenery make what are ordinary symbols of great Terran vitality appear as monstrous obscenities.

I'm certain I'm not the only one looking forward to further comments on Ligotti from this blogger, who seems well versed in the realm of formal philosophy.

-Grim Blogger