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Enter the Dollhouse—The Stories of Thomas Ligotti

Puppets and manikins; the horror of unliving objects; the infinite, inhuman cosmos; artificial intelligence; the uncanny valley; Ligotti, Lovecraft, and…

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Against the Creator Economy

A Manifesto for Failure

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