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Divinations of the Deep Ash-Tree Press, 2002		Dark Awakenings Mythos Books, 2010

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Holy Horrors, edited by Matt Cardin and T.M. Wright. Forthcoming in 2010 from Ash-Tree Press.

• "Chimeras & Grotesqueries" - Dark Faith, ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Books, May 2010.

• "The New Pauline Corpus" – Cthulhu's Reign, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW, April 2010.

• "Blackbrain Dwarf" – Dark Awakenings, 2010.

• "Desert Places" – Alone on the Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2006.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.

• "Nightmares, Imported and Domestic" (written with Mark McLaughlin) – The HWA Presents: Dark Arts, ed. John Pelan, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.

• "Sailing into Night" (round robin story) – The Evil Entwines, John B. Ford, Rainfall Books, 2005.

• "Unfinished Nightmare" – Dark Lurkers, ed. Paul Melniczek, Double Dragon Books, 2004.

• "A Cherished Place at the Center of His Plans" (written with Mark McLaughlin) – Hell Is Where the Heart Is, Mark McLaughlin, Medium Rare Books, 2003.

• "The Stars Shine Without Me" – Horrorfind, October 2002.
  Also in In Delirium II, ed. John Everson, Delirium Books, 2007.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.

• The God of Foulness – The Art of Grimscribe, March 2002.
  Also at Terror Tales, 2002.
  Also in Dark Homage series, Book #5, ed. Shane Ryan Staley, Delirium Books, June 2004.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.

• "If It Had Eyes" – Divinations of the Deep, 2002.

• "Judas of the Infinite" – Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
  Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2002 (German translation).

• "The Devil and One Lump" – Horrorfind, December 2001.
  Also in The Best of Horrorfind II, ed. Brian Keene, Horrorfind Publications, 2003.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010 (revised and expanded version).

• "The Basement Theater" – Terror Tales, April 2000.
  Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2000.
  Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002.

• "An Abhorrence to All Flesh" – Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999.
  Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
  Also in Allem Fleisch ein Greuel, eds. Eddie M. Angerhuber and Boris Koch, Medusenblut, 2005 (German translation).

• "Notes of a Mad Copyist" – Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999.
  Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002 (revised and expanded version).

• "Teeth" – Thomas Ligotti Online, 1998.
  Also in The Children of Cthulhu, ed. John Pelan, Del Rey, 2002.
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010 (revised and expanded version).

• (Forthcoming) "Religion and Vampires" – Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, ed. S. T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2010

• "Gods and Monsters, Worms and Fire: A Horrific Reading of Isaiah" – Dark Awakenings, 2010

• "Loathsome Objects: George Romero's Living Dead Films as Contemplative Tools" – Dark Awakenings, 2010

• "Perspiration Meets Inspiration or, The Return of the Muse" - Talent Development Resources, March 5, 2010
• "Lovecraft's Longing: Part Two" – Art Throb, October 30, 2009
  
• "Lovecraft's Longing: Part One" – Art Throb, October 22, 2009
  
• "The Angel and the Demon" – Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, ed. S.T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2006
  Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010 (revised and expanded version).

• "There Is No Grand Scheme: From a Life Journal in Progress" – In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, ed. Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press, 2006

• "The Master's Eyes Shining with Secrets: The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Thomas Ligotti" – Thomas Ligotti Online, 2005
  Also in Lovecraft Studies #1, October 2007

• "Media obsession with trivial hurts our nation" – The News-Leader, February 25, 2007

• "Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti's 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World'" – The Art of Grimscribe, 2002
  Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003

• "'Those Sorrows Which Are Sent to Wean Us from the Earth': The Failed Quest for Enlightenment in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" – Penny Dreadful #14, December 2001

• "Thomas Ligotti's Career of Nightmares" – in Terror Tales, April 2000
  Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2002
  Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003

• "The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti's 'Nethescurial'" – Thomas Ligotti Online, April 2000
  Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003

• (Forthcoming)"Count Dracula (BBC)" and "Fright Night 1 and 2" – Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, ed. S. T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2010
• (Forthcoming) Interview with S. T. Joshi

• "Let the id do the writing': A Conversation with Nick Mamatas" – The Teeming Brain, July 2009

• "Horror, Dread, and Transcendent Yearning: A Conversation with Kim Paffenroth" – The Teeming Brain, July 2009

• "Mini Collections from Major Talent" (Douglas Smith, Impossibilia and Mark Samuels, Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes) – Dead Reckonings #5, Spring 2009

• "A Conversation with Stephen Jones" – Cemetery Dance #59, December 2008

• "Sometimes You Just Have to Gush" (Stephen Mark Rainey, Other Gods and Michael Shea, The Autopsy and Other Tales) – Dead Reckonings, #4, Fall 2008

• "Dystopia Now" (Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco and Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories) – Dead Reckonings #3, Spring 2008

• Review of Richard Gavin's Omens – Dead Reckonings #2, Fall 2007

• "Books into Film and Vice Versa" (Tom Piccirilli, The Dead Letters and Tim Waggoner, Darkness Wakes) – Dead Reckonings #1, Spring 2007

• Review of Judy Allen, Unexplained: An Encyclopedia of Curious Phenomena, Strange Superstitions, and Ancient Mysteries – Strange Horizons, November 22, 2006

• "'A Sense of Charnel Glamour': An Interview with Mark Samuels" – The Teeming Brain, September 2006

• "'It's all a matter of personal pathology': An Interview with Thomas Ligotti" – The Teeming Brain, July 2006
  Also in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2, October 2006

• "Dreaming the Industrial Future: Simon Logan's I-O" – Strange Horizons, February 10, 2003

• Review of Alex Severin, For the Love of Blood" – Sinisteria, March 2002

• Review of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones – Sinisteria, March 2002