THREE THINGS THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU A Series Of Poems By Thomas Ligotti
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WHAT GOOD IS YOUR HEAD?
The mysteries of a nightmare or the ill magic of hallucinations or even the way you are conditioned to react to an image of the moon delivered straight into your eyes - Why do they hide what these things really are and how they operate? Why do they only answer in such confused and conflicting terms? The reason is simple. Because who knows what might happen if you could understand the whining of nightmare-dogs in your dreams or the voices in your head that never tell you anything you want to hear not to mention why you feel a certain way when images invade your eyes and intrude upon the brain that floats in the darkness inside your head? What would happen if you knew what these things really are and how they operate - What would happen to you as a person who understands what it means to have a head? With this knowledge you certainly might decide to take your head right off and just sit quietly in the dark of your new headlessness. © Thomas Ligotti
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WHAT HAPPENS TO FACES
A tear in the face it was as if you were dreaming because they never said a word and you were hiding in a place with no one around when a tear in the face and all the things that came out put an end to the world that you always thought you knew. And as if you were dreaming a tear in the face made you awake in a darkness unlike any you have ever seen. They could easily tell you and then say you were dreaming about a tear in the face of a world in a mirror where faces are glass and are smooth and are shining till the glass starts to crack all the faces are broken and their scars are the shadows that you always knew were there. And as if you were dreaming a tear in the face was the last thing and the worst that you ever saw. They never will speak even when you are dreaming about a tear in the face of a face that is made of all the flesh that is grown like a world in the body that bursts forth from the darkness shimmering in the darkness or quivering for just a moment in the face of a face that will always be unknown. But it was all so much dreaming you finally see it was just so much dreaming you finally know - a tear in the face they would have to tell something about something like that... about a tear in the face. © Thomas Ligotti
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WHAT BECOMES OF THE BODY
A little black box they can hide in the darkness where it can never be found and opened to you eyes not because they are kind or because they are wise but only because... A little black box they can hide in the darkness is just the right thing to keep you forever guessing what they never would tell you not that they are really concerned you ever might find... That little black box and take out like toys what is contained inside and unearth all their secrets such as how they deceive you till the death of your body and make you believe that there actually might be a little black box that they hide in the darkness. © Thomas Ligotti
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LIMITED-EDITION FINE-ARTS PRINTS
Thomas Ligotti has collaborated with artist Jason Van Hollander on a new fine-art, limited-edition print. Each print is numbered and signed by author and artist, and is produced using highest quality archival inks and papers (7 by 15 inches). A signed 'certificate of authenticity' is also included. These are full color, gallery-quality prints that are meant to be matted and framed. For information about ordering these collectible prints, or to order a MagicPen catalog, email: Here's an example of one of the prints which displays one of Thomas Ligotti's poems and the beautiful artwork by Jason Van Hollander (the other poems will be illustrated in a similar way): |