The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

Thomas Ligotti

Oct 2018 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

About this audiobook

"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 listeners 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.

Ratings and reviews

It's as if his words was the most exquisite blade attempting to carve out my very soul and I bear it willingly !!!! The conscience of a child lacks pessimism and is full of wonder. Somewhere along the way the switch is flipped and the realization of death comes into view. When forever never was, That is where we go. It just is because it does, Change the things we know.

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About the author

Thomas Ligotti is among the most acclaimed horror writers of the past thirty years and has received three Bram Stoker Awards, a British Fantasy Award, and an International Horror Guild Award.

Eric Jason Martin is a producer, director, and voice performer based in Los Angeles. He is the AudioFile Earphones and Audie Award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks, including works by Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Karin Slaughter, and Lee Child.