Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Darkness as Literary Art

This intricately woven work is stylistically old-fashioned, like the Decadence of the 1890s, but is not lacking for something modern. Ligotti is conceivably the best living horror writer and transcends all the kitsch and cornpone notions of what is scary in a horror story, revealing that what really frightens us is stuff that is so beautiful in its bent wickedness that we just might not be able to resist killing ourselves just to be next to it for one final startled breath.