At last night’s 2019 Bram Stoker Award ceremony, which was presented in a rather nifty video format, David Tibet accepted Thomas Ligotti’s Lifetime Achievement Award. See for yourself, beginning at 13:40:
You can read the text of Tom’s acceptance speech online, but seeing/hearing Tibet deliver it is so much more fulfilling. The whole thing, both the HWA’s giving of the award and Tibet’s acceptance of it in Tom’s stead, feels like the fulfillment of some dark celestial alignment that has been some thirty-plus years in the making.