(preorder—to be published in February/March)
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Paul Romano.
Published by Chiroptera Press.
Note: There is a limit of one copy per edition per person/household.
About the Book:
Chiroptera Press presents My Work Is Not Yet Done, a landmark collection that unites three of Thomas Ligotti’s classic tales of corporate and existential horror in one definitive volume.
The first of three stories is a true Ligotti masterwork: the long, titular novella, “My Work Is Not Yet Done,” which follows Frank Dominio, a supervisor whose on-the-job philosophy is to keep his head down. But when a smug, creepy executive and a cabal of Dominio’s colleagues conspire to backstab him, leading to his forced resignation, Dominio comes in contact with an all-consuming, supernatural force that empowers him to take his revenge on his former compatriots in ways that are at once wildly imaginative, spectral, visceral, and darkly hilarious. Dominio’s ghoulish “work” leads to an unforgettable epiphany about reality itself that is revealed to be, in true Ligottian fashion, “a nightmarish obscenity.”
“I Have a Special Plan for This World” continues Ligotti’s corporate horror theme, documenting the Blaine Company's relocation to a strange city permeated by a thick, yellowish haze. After a series of mysterious murders, the company's founder, U. G. Blaine, begins to take a “direct hand” in operations. Blaine’s supernatural presence seems to merge with the city's toxic atmosphere as the company pursues its “preposterous ambition” to become a “dominant force in the world marketplace.”
The volume concludes with “The Nightmare Network,” a fragmented transmission from OneiriCon, a dreaming “multinational corporation” that seems to encompass existence itself. Told through a dizzying array of classified ads, executive memos, and surreal vignettes, Ligotti chronicles the ultimate big business “of delirious images and impulses” that ultimately merges with its own “anti-entity,” plunging all of reality into a “great chaos of confused purposes churning in darkness.”
This edition of My Work Is Not Yet Done features the lush production quality for which Chiroptera Press is known. Featuring stunning artwork by Paul Romano, including multiple interior illustrations, the volume is an exquisite collector's item for any connoisseur of weird fiction.
Standard signed specs:
- 6"x 9"
- 174 pages
- Clothbound hardcover
- Smyth-sewn binding with head, tail bands, and ribbon marker
- Tipped-in signature page signed by the author and the artist
- Offset printed on acid-free archival paper
- Printed in Lithuania and bound in USA
Slipcase edition specs:
- 6"x 9"
- 174 pages
- Smyth-sewn binding with head, tail bands, and ribbon marker
- Tipped-in signature page signed by the author and the artist
- Alternative cloth color to the standard edition
- Hand marbled end papers
- Black foil stamping over blue cloth
- Blue edge staining
- Custom slipcase stamped on 3 sides
- Offset printed on acid-free archival paper
- Printed in Lithuania and bound in USA
- authors_list:
- Thomas Ligotti
- artists_list:
- Paul Romano
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