The Conspiracy against the Human Race

2018-10-02 Literary Criticism

Author : Thomas Ligotti
Release : 2018-10-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Conspiracy against the Human Race written by Thomas Ligotti. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." 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. 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. 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.

Teatro Grottesco

2009-11-24 Fiction

Author : Thomas Ligotti
Release : 2009-11-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 178/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Teatro Grottesco written by Thomas Ligotti. This book was released on 2009-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H. P. Lovecraft. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque imagination and accomplished prose style. In his stories, Ligotti has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare. The horror stories collected in Teatro Grottesco feature tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives introduce readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives.

My Work Is Not Yet Done

2011-05-31 Fiction

Author : Thomas Ligotti
Release : 2011-05-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 18X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Work Is Not Yet Done written by Thomas Ligotti. This book was released on 2011-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable - but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done. Destined to be a cult classic, this tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

In the Dust of This Planet

2011-08-26 Philosophy

Author : Eugene Thacker
Release : 2011-08-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 103/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book In the Dust of This Planet written by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2011-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. The cover of In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z's back promoting Run. The book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW8OK4_1gQ

Grimscribe

2011-07-31 Horror tales

Author : Thomas Ligotti
Release : 2011-07-31
Genre : Horror tales
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Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Grimscribe written by Thomas Ligotti. This book was released on 2011-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in a series of revised editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti.

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