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Title: The divinity student makes textuality into living myth!
Review: Michael Cisco has in The Divinity Student performed the feat declared impossible by the only other member of his sub-sub-genre, Thomas Ligotti: he has wrought a nightmare vignette of depressive elation, nihilistic revelation, in novel (okay, novella) length. It is a weird journey to be compared only with the eerie and stunning impact of reading Ligotti's own Songs of a Dead Dreamer. I wish Cisco's new fans good hunting as they now go in search, as they must, to find his several short stories, including "The Reliquaries," "Translation," "He Will Be there," "For No Eyes," "The Water Nymphs," "Firebrands of Terror," and others. His Divinity Student is like Ligotti's Vastarien, the book that is not about a thing, but is that thing.
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