Unfortunately, the prose is also as ponderous as Edgar Allan Poe. In Brandon Robshaw's brief review for The Independent, the book's prose was compared both favourably and unfavourably to Edgar Allan Poe's: "Parts of this are as creepy as Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft, calling him "an accomplished conjuror of nightmares". Interzone said that "Ligotti is wonderfully original he has a dark vision of a new and special kind, a vision that no one had before him", while The Times compared the author to H. Lovecraft and the weird fiction genre, said that the book "displays a Thomas Ligotti at the height of his form". My Work Is Not Yet Done won the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award. As a result, Oneiricon attempts one last merger, with the so-called Nightmare Network. This story is told in a series of classified ads, commercials, memos, private emails, journal entries, and segments of movie scripts, which chart the decline and fall of a major company, Oneiricon, once its ambitious, acquisitive nature has reached its apex, leaving nothing left to achieve in the corporate world. Supervisors at the Blaine Company start falling victim to the murder rate until none are left, and a change in management style leads the story's narrator to reveal the dark secret at work in the company. The city is permeated by a strange yellowish haze which may be responsible for some of the murders. "I Have a Special Plan for This World" īlaine Company moves to a city once known as Murder Town for its high crime rate, but since a re-branding effort has been designated the Golden City. However, as he's preparing for this, a strange, dark force operating within and behind the scenes of life envelops him, putting him in a psychic position between life and death, where he can spy on The Seven while using supernatural powers to craft ironic punishments for them. A depressed Dominio visits a gun shop, planning to return to the company the next day and kill them one by one. When Dominio proposes a new product idea which could bring in a great deal of money, The Seven conspire to have him demoted then fired so they can steal it for themselves. The other managers are Barry, Harry, Mary, Perry, Sherry, and Kerrie, their similarities of name leading Dominio to think of them, Richard aside, as the Seven Dwarves. Richard calls Dominio "Domino" in what the latter believes is a deliberate mistake made as a power play. He's routinely called to meetings by what he calls "The Seven": seven other managers led by Richard, nicknamed "The Doctor" for dark and mysterious reasons that an employee could lose their job for enquiring about. Stories "My Work Is Not Yet Done" Ĭonstantly afraid, Frank Dominio is a junior manager in a company which does not respect him. The narrators of the first two stories are low-level employees of large corporations with inner-city offices. This subtitle indicates the shared theme of the stories: the modern corporate workplace and its effect on those who sustain it at the lower levels. The stories themselves have their own subtitles respectively, "The Wages of Life", "The Second Coming of the Dead", and "Going Out of Business".) You can submit a request by clicking ‘Fix a problem / Contact us’ to the right of or below this article.My Work Is Not Yet Done is a horror novella by American author Thomas Ligotti, collected with two short stories, "I Have a Special Plan for This World" and "The Nightmare Network", and subtitled Three Tales of Corporate Horror. If you haven't received any email, please submit a Support request to us. If the issue persists after that, please check your email to see if your story was removed for violating our Content Guidelines. Log out and back into their account, making sure to completely close the app.Turn off and on their wi-fi or data connection, or try connecting to another wi-fi network.If your readers are having trouble viewing the story, ask them to try these troubleshooting steps: If your story still hasn't appeared on your Android profile after 48 hours, it could be due to a connection error. If your story has tag rankings, it may appear in Hot Lists.Your readers can access the story using a direct link or by searching for it.On the web or iOS app, the story should appear on your profile immediately after it's published.However, there are still ways for you and your readers to access the story: We are aware of this issue and are working on resolving it. If you've just published a new story on Wattpad's Android app, please note that it may take up to 48 hours for the story to appear on your profile.
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