The conspiracy against the human race: a contrivance of horror I Thomas Ligotti. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ligotti, Thomas. Harrall used with permission of Lovecraft Properties LLC. Mas Ligotti, The Tenant by Roland Topor, 2006 "'It's All a Matter of Per sonal Pathology': An Interview with Thomas Ligotti" by Matt Cardin, The Teeming Brain (weblog), 2006.Īll excerpts from the works of Peter Wessel Zapffe © Gisle R.
Parts of this work were published, in different form, in the following pub lications: "Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti" by Nedda! Ayad, Fantastic Metropolis (website), Octo"Thomas Ligotti on Sweeney Todd," Horror: Anotherīooks, Stephen Jones and Kim Newman, eds., 2005 Introduction by Tho Thomas Ligotti photograph © 2010 by Jennifer Gariepy. The Conspiracy against the Human Race A Contrivance of HorrorĬopyright © 2010 Thomas Ligotti. I Have a Special Plan for This World This Degenerate Little Town Death Poems SCREENPLAYSĬrampton (with Brandon Trenz) The Frolic (with Brandon Trenz) Songs of a Dead Dreamer Grimscribe Noctuary The Nightmare Factory My Work Is Not Yet Done The Shadow at the Bottom of the World Teatro Grottesco POETRY At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.ĬONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE THOMAS LIGOTTI Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. 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.
Ligotti's calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition.
The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. 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 Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti's first work of nonfiction. 2010 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.
0 kommentar(er)
