It is a long essay collecting various artifacts of pessimistic philosophy and literature, from Sweeney Todd to Peter Wessel Zapffe. His fiction occupies a niche within the horror genre, a heavily stylized supernaturalism that evokes European writers like Thomas Bernhard and Stefan Grabinski.Ĭonspiracy is Ligotti’s only book of non-fiction in a small but outstanding body of work. Its author, horror auteur Thomas Ligotti, has spent the majority of his career in obscurity due to his refreshing lack of self-promotion and his inconsistent publishing. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race is an amalgamation of philosophy, literature, and scientific research relating to pessimism. Wouldn’t such a tome be grand? Imagine writing something so profound, so true that the reader could never return to reality. In horror fiction there is the trope of the forbidden book containing secret knowledge that causes the reader to go mad.
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