# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-ligotti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:12:52.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-ligotti"
name: "Thomas Ligotti"
slug: "thomas-ligotti"
description: "Thomas Ligotti is an American horror author, philosopher, and writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him \"the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction.\""
tagline: "American horror author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Thomas_Ligotti_signature.png/330px-Thomas_Ligotti_signature.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.59367066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2606146/"
    handle:    "nm2606146"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ligotti.net"
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    title: "Thomas Ligotti"
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    title: "Thomas Ligotti"
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    title: "托马斯·利戈蒂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Ligotti"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump