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"Songs of a Dead Dreamer" by Thomas Ligotti

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風格融合超現實與存在恐懼
探索腐敗城市與夢境

Dreams for Sleepwalkers
00:28 The Frolic- A prison psychiatrist, Dr. Munck, meets John Doe, a charismatic, supernatural patient whose chilling, otherworldly crimes unsettle Munck’s rational worldview, threatening his family’s safety with eerie, ominous implications in a tense narrative.
32:04 Les Fleurs- A narrator’s romance with florist Daisy unravels amid his secretive life. Her curiosity and a detective’s probing hint at dark secrets, ending ambiguously with looming dread and wilting connections.
49:41 Alice’s Last Adventure- Alice, an aging writer, revisits her surreal children’s stories, blurring reality and fiction. Strange events and a sinister figure haunt her, leading to an ambiguous, unsettling end hinting at her possible demise.
1:27:44 Dream of a Manikin- A psychologist analyzes Miss Locher’s dream of working in a clothing shop, where a lifelike manikin unsettles them. Paranoia grows, blurring dream and reality, as they suspect a mysterious conspiracy involving “you.”
The Nyctalops Trilogy
1:59:20 I The Chymist - Simon, a cryptic chemist, is led to Rosemary’s home in a decaying city, where his talk of an alchemical process warps reality, drawing her into a disturbing, dreamlike mystery with eerie, irreversible consequences.
2:25:13 II Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes - A hypnotist showcases his eerily beautiful assistant at a society party, scorns his entranced audience, confronts a skeptical child, and prepares to reveal her horrifying corpse-like reality.
2:47:18 III Eye of the Lynx - An unnamed narrator explores the House of Chains, a BDSM brothel, guided by a dominatrix through surreal, fantasy-laden scenes, blending reality and imagination in a hypnotic, seductive power play.
3:06:35 Notes on the Writing of Horror - what appears to be a guidebook on horror fiction, but slowly this apparatus of learning collapses into the grotesque performance of the horror it aims to describe.
Dreams for Insomniacs
3:50:02 Jack visits Aunt Elise on Christmas Eve, hears a neighbor’s eerie tale, and faces a parallel reality, reliving past holidays with themes of possession and dread amidst festive terror.
4:08:16 A half-vampire painter, raised in the U.S. after his mother’s vampire-related death, is fully transformed by paternal relatives who took over his existence, revealing their terrifying, inhuman nature.
4:47:47 Misanthropic artist Alb Indys, isolated and drawing still lifes, overhears tales of Dr. Thoss, a mad, murderous physician. Thoss, real and legendary, claims Alb, whose death spawns a new urban legend.
5:15:24 Swordsman Faliol, with spectacles revealing existential horror, aids a prince rescuing his beloved from a duke. Wizard-guided, he infiltrates a masked pageant, confronting god Anima Mundi in philosophical torment.
6:01:26 Veech seeks Voke’s aid for a love triangle, luring rivals to a street where unseen forces transform them into a hideous hybrid. Distraught, he confronts Voke, who dies laughing, animating a manikin in a chaotic loft.
6:24:26 An essay on supernatural horror’s appeal, transforming normalcy into darkness, explores morbidity as time’s depletion, pessimism as a gloomy gift, and “existence equals nightmare,” with sardonic harmony evading life’s tormenting affirmations.
Dreams for the Dead
6:37:03 Dr. Locrian’s Asylum - Mr. Crane recalls the town haunted by Dr. Locrian’s abandoned asylum, where apparitions appear in windows; after its destruction, the hauntings persist, and Locrian imparts secrets, ultimately confining Crane in the asylum’s legacy.
6:59:27 The Sect of the Idiot - A traveler visits an unnamed, decaying town, meets a strange figure, uncovers a hidden hooded sect performing rituals in an attic; after contact he’s absorbed into their rites and leaves haunted, changed forever.
7:24:01 The Greater Festival of Masks - Noss visits a town’s mask festival, finds a perfect mask, and helps the shopkeeper. At a party, the mask no longer fits; discarding it, he realizes he has changed before the true festival begins.
7:40:37 The Music of the Moon - Tressor, a sleepless wanderer, attends a bizarre concert by eerie musicians fused with their instruments. Finally asleep, only he awakens to webbed, eyeless spectators, entranced by the moon’s call.
7:58:40 The Journal of J.P. Drapeau - A Poe-like writer’s 1890s diary begins with eerie fantasies and dreamlike visions, but gradually his entries shift into existential dread, self-doubt, and a haunting collapse of identity that consumes his reflections.
8:13:02 Vastarien - Victor Keirion, obsessed with finding the perfect book, discovers a peculiar shop where a crow-like man helps him obtain a mysterious volume. Able to read it uniquely, Victor is transformed, ultimately confessing murder and confined.

Costa's Wordbook
Peregrination n a journey, especially a long or meandering one (pair re grin Nation)
Gauzy adj resembling gauze, thin and translucent

Ensor - a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
Kermesse - fr, a traditional Flemish festival or fair, often with music, dancing, and masked pageantry — the kind of medieval, grotesque, and slightly uncanny celebrations that Bruegel and Ensor depicted in their paintings.
Waif n a homeless, neglected, or abandoned person, especially a child; a young person who is thin and looks unhealthy or uncared for (wave)
Ubiquitous adj present, appearing, or found everywhere (you Bik quit tus)
Prestidigitation n conjuring tricks performed as entertainment (Pres ti digit Taytion)
Mote n a tiny piece of a substance, a speck (like note)

Claustral adj enveloping, confining; relating to a cloister or religious house (Clos stral)
Paling adj a fence made from pointed wooden or metal posts (Pay ling)
Librairie de Grimoires - fr, Grimoire Bookstore
Liturgy n a form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted; arch. the Book of Common Prayer 禮拜儀式 (Lit ter gy)
Esoterica n esoteric or highly specialized subjects or publications 深奥 (Es so terica)
Cynothoglys - a fictional entity created by the author, appears as a shapeless, multiform entity with a single arm used for catching those who summoned her, and bringing them a painless, ecstatic death
Arrantly adv utterly, completely, or thoroughly
Provenance n the place of origin or earliest known history of something (Prov ven nance)
Musculature n the system or arrangement of muscles in a body, part of the body, or an organ
Suchness n the quality or state of being such: essential or characteristic quality

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