![]() "Thomas Ligotti is a master of a different order. He writes like horror incarnate - Thomas Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one. Now with a new foreword by the author, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the dismaying yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is a hallmark of Ligotti's work. I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. His first nonfiction book is no less estimable in exploring various domains to similarly disturbing effect.ĭrawing 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 we are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who believes otherwise has simply fallen under the spell of an optimistic fallacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Ligotti's supernatural horror fiction is ranked among the most distinguished and disquieting in the genre. "Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." ![]()
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