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My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror (Hardcover)

~ Thomas Ligotti (Author)
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The bureaucracy of the modern office and the dehumanization of workplace drones are fodder for surreal black comedy in this triptych of tales from horror master Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory). Each of the selections resonates with echoes of Kafka and Orwell in its elaboration of the daily work grind as a disturbingly credible metaphor for universal entropy. In "I Have a Special Plan for This World," worker discontent in the office setting becomes so toxic that it generates a cloud whose release into the external environment accelerates social decline of the surrounding city. "The Nightmare Network" is presented as a series of want ads and dispatches for Oneiricon, an all-consuming multinational corporation whose merger mania leads inevitably to hideous physical transformations of its work force. The title tale, a short novel, begins as the morbidly amusing narrative of Frank Dominio, a Dilbert type driven to psychotic paranoia by the seemingly senseless boardroom protocols enforced by his fellow supervisors and their superior. It soon morphs into a bizarre pas de deux between Frank and a department head nicknamed "The Doctor," who come to represent cosmic forces in a collision that draws the business and its employees into their vortex. As Ligotti depicts it, the modern workplace is an infernal realm where illogical demands are clues to an inscrutable malevolent scheme, and where terms like "reorganization," "relocation" and "product" have sinister talismanic meaning. There is little balm in these stories for the overworked, but enough dark satire to make the reader cringe in agreement.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Second printing, 200 pages. Full color wrap-around cover and interior black & white frontis by Harry O. Morris. Contains the stories "I Have A Special Plan For This World" and "The Nightmare Network" and the unpublished novella "My Work Is Not Yet Done". Winner of the 2002 International Horror Guild and Horror Writer's Association awards.

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  • Hardcover: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Mythos Books (June 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0965943372
  • ISBN-13: 978-0965943376
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Strange and unsettling, August 28, 2002
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Thomas Ligotti has carved out a unique place for himself in modern weird fiction. The power of his work comes from his ability to create a strange atmosphere that enables one to not so much suspend disbelief as actually become a part of the story. I always come away from reading Ligotti's work with a feeling of having been somewhere, sometime, not quite normal. His characters fit into these worlds, sometimes seeming to bleed over into that of the reader.

MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE continues this trend. This connected series of works (I decline to call them stories, exactly) concern themselves with corporate life (a timely enough topic) and the machinations of those who work within the corporate world. The bulk of the book is taken up with a fascinating monologue as told by a cog in a particularly devious and poisonous corporation. What this person does, what happens to this person, and how he comes to influence those around him can only be described as weird fiction at its finest. It's confusing, unsettling, disturbing. (And I have to admit that part of this work goes completely over my head, which didn't prevent me from enjoying it immensely.)

Once again, Ligotti has created fiction that takes the reader along, perhaps not completely willingly. He is an amazing talent.

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best horror novels in years, November 18, 2002
thomas ligotti is, without a doubt, the greatest living horror writer today. although this one diverges significantly from his other work in setting and characterization, the sense of cosmic doom and pessimism is, as always, unrelenting and laid on wonderfully thick. in "my work is not yet done", a dissatisfied employee (to say the least), frank dominio, decides to quit his job and take vengeance on his equally bizarre and twisted co-workers. after being hit by a bus (without realizing it), he projects his bitter and hateful spirit on his fellow employees and takes them out in, eh, unconventional ways. this is oddly amusing in a way that "the nightmare factory" or "noctuary" is not, and strangely enough, the humor only serves to make the work more bleak. the atmosphere of misery and dehumanization never lets up, and the ending is even more crushing than the beginning--which is saying something. this is more kafkaesque than kafka. look especially for the really fascinating references to dominio's obsession with dilapidated and decayed houses. absolutely superb.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Title story is awe-inspiring., March 31, 2004
Thomas Ligotti, My Work Is Not Yet Done (Mythos Books, 2002)

Thomas Ligotti stamped himself as a force to be reckoned with in horror fiction from the release of his very first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, almost fifteen years ago as I write this. He has remained, unfortunately, obscure ever since, despite putting out some of the highest-quality horror to be found anywhere in recent years. Now, along comes My Work Is Not Yet Done, and it's released by the smallest of presses, virtually ensuring it will not find the audience it deserves and catapult Ligotti to the top of the bestseller lists, where he has belonged all this time.

My Work Is Not Yet Done is a short novel (the title piece) and two previously collected stories. Of the three, "My Work Is Not Yet Done" is the collection's best piece. While Ligotti has always been a writer of unimpeachable quality, the critics who likened his early work "derivative of Lovecraft" were not all that far off the mark. "My Work Is Not Yet Done" is a whole new Ligotti; it's as if his own voice suddenly broke through and he left behind the shed skin of Lovecraft. And Ligotti's own voice is just as compelling, if not even more so. His protagonist in this story has a lot to say, and says it well. Traces of the ridiculously erudite still remain, but the guy sounds more like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant than someone delivering a lecture to PhD candidates.

The other two stories in the book are minor works, but still indicative of the brilliance of Ligotti. "I Have a Special Plan for This World" puts a completely alien spin on the urban landscape, giving us just enough details to get queasy without actually giving us the goods a la the splatterpunks and their spinoffs. "The Nightmare Network," the collection's weakest piece, takes an impressionist dada look at the world of the corporate merger. It seems as if Ligotti were going for the same "give them just enough" vibe from the previous story, but fell short by a few yards. Still, what's there is capable of evoking a vague sense of dread, rather than simply falling flat on its face, as so many unsuccessful horror stories do.

Absolutely wonderful. Probably very hard to find. Absolutely worth it. If you haven't yet discovered the wonder that is Thomas Ligotti, you owe it to yourself to find this and read it. As soon as possible. ****

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3.0 out of 5 stars Literary horror in the fine tradition of Poe and Lovecraft
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