“Realism” is the philosophical idea that specific things (that dog, this sign, the person crossing the road in front of me right now) really exist. Padgett combines both of these themes by embracing Realism, and then unfolding the stories that show both in their content and pattern the horror beneath Realism. Lovecraft to a great extent also pushed the idea of a coherent universe that his stories took place in, while Ligotti largely limited himself to shared elements except in certain books, such as the Nightmare Factory. For Lovecraft it was materialism and for Ligotti anti-natalism. But rather, he can deconstruct the genre to find the essential elements, and reconstruct it in a way that combines a plausible philosophy of the universe with the horror sensibility.īoth Lovecraft and Ligotti had distinct philosophical voices. Nor that Jon Padgett is capable of writing a competent Lovecraft or Ligotti pastiche.
Joshi, or can write an interesting story like Colin Wilson. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti.īy this I don’t just mean that Jon Padgett is knowledgeable about horror like S.T. Let me begin with this: Jon Padgett deserves a place in the philosophical horror pantheon along with H.P. “Origami Dreams,” in The Secret of Ventriloquism The following is a transcription of the text. I wonder if you’ll have any insight on who wrote them or how they came to be squirreled away under the mattress that I’ve slept upon for so many years.
These pages seem to be in the form of journal entries, though I question their nonfictional authenticity for reasons that will become obvious. The papers contained words, mostly filled out in a miniature, spidery longhand, that resembles neither your elegant script nor my careful cursive.
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