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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: conspiracy against the human race
    sub title: a contrivance of horror
  name:
    name part: Ligotti, Thomas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: First Paperback Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 246 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: 2010 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. 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. --David Benatar, author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence;Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
  table of contents: Foreword by Ray Brassier -- Introduction : of pessimism and paradox -- The nightmare of being -- Who goes there? -- Freaks of salvation -- Sick to death -- The cult of grinning martyrs -- Autopsy on a puppet : an anatomy of the supernatural -- Notes.
  note: Thomas Ligotti.
  note: "2010 Bram Stoker Award nominee"--Cover.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246).
  subject:
    topic: Horror in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Pessimism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Horror in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Pessimism in literature
  classification: PN56.H6 L54 2011
  classification: 809/.9164
  identifier: 9780984480272 (Pbk)
  identifier: 0984480277 (Pbk)
  record info:
    record content source: NJR
    record creation date: 100309
    record change date: 20151206130254.0
    record identifier: in00003495229