The conspiracy against the human race: a contrivance of horror; [2010 Bram Stoker Award Nominee]
✍ Scribed by Ligotti, Thomas
- Publisher
- Hippocampus Press
- Year
- 2012;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Edition
- First paperback edition April 2011
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1614980306
- ASIN
- B008EENBZU
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✦ Synopsis
The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti’s first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti’s calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition. Those who cannot bear the truth will pretend this is another work of fiction, but in doing so they perpetuate the conspiracy of the book’s title. 2010 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.
✦ Subjects
horror, pessimism, antinatalism, lovecraft, dark, materialism, realism, nihilism, nihilist, zapffe, philosophy, nightmare of being, malignantly useless, buddhism, schopenhauer, human condition, better