Did the writer of "True Detective" plagiarize Thomas Ligotti and others?
(Above: Video comparing lines from True Detective to phrases from the works of Thomas Ligotti.) Like many fans of weird fiction, I was overjoyed to discover HBO's True Detective. But as the season progressed, I became increasingly uneasy. It seemed to me that True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto was "borrowing" words and phrasing from other authors, especially Thomas Ligotti.…
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