In a small factory, a new, uncanny supervisor is sent by corporate. The narrator tells of the history of a horrific factory.Ī new employee uncovers a strange conspiracy at his office. The book was first published in 2006 by Durtro Press as a limited edition hardcover: another hardcover edition was released on Novemby Mythos Books, and a paperback edition was released on Jby Virgin Books.Ī boy moves to a new neighborhood with his disturbed family and learns of his father's strange "principles".Ī small town descends into absurd insanity when a new "town manager" arrives.Ī struggling author meets an older, wiser author and reads his strange works.Ī man experiences consistent "visits" from a supernatural marionette. This is his fifth collection, containing tales written throughout his career. (I doubt if it works on batteries as the narrator proposes!).Teatro Grottesco (Italian for Theatre of the Grotesque) is a collection of short stories by American horror author Thomas Ligotti. LATER EDIT: The story is also like the story's own TV that works without electricity. Yes, yes, I did get out, because I’m destined to re-read (& comment on) all the other stories in ‘Teatro Grottesco’ as part of this project I’ve set myself. Or maybe I didn’t escape this time, and I’m still there, hanging in its world?
The next time I re-read ‘Purity’, I may not be so lucky. “Nonsense” elsewhere in Ligotti) for something else that truly tries to get through the layers of disintentionalisation towards me. The Father’s three principles are just a nonsensical decoy or subterfuge (Cf. Any story title is often a loophole we can cling to. The Purity is the need to disentangle from the story unscathed, unblemished. “Nothing that drives anybody makes any sense.”
“There’s nothing in the attic It’s only the way that your head is interacting with the space of that attic.” The story is not about but is Candy as described by the story.
The story itself is my (the reader’s) own Candy. The feel of this story reminds me of ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘House of Leaves’ but something much more which is tantalisingly within my grasp – only to fall into the basement of the story figuratively and literally. renting reality from fiction (or vice versa?). This is about insulation, disintentionalisation, holding things beyond one’s own ownership, i.e.
We never really know what will be under a stranger’s boxer shorts. PURITY – The narrator is dead pan, logical about illogicality – and, therefore, from among the many narrators I’ve met in all fiction over the years, he or she (here in ‘Purity’) is one of the most dependable, if not 100% dependable. For the next few weeks (or months), I intend to re-read my Durtro hardback edition of Teatro Grottesco (2006) and make a critique of each story in turn on this thread - followed by my personal 'gestalt' impression of the whole book, hopefully 'disintentionalised' of anything I know about TL as a person.
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