conspiracy against the human race by thomas ligotti

Ligotti’s short stories, making him one of 10 living writers, including Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, among the hundreds the imprint has published in the U.S.' Ligotti's work received high praise following the publication from the likes of The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Penguin Classics published a volume of Mr. Michael Calia of The Wall Street Journal wrote of the reprint that 'Horror writer Thomas Ligotti is about to enter the American literary canon. In 2015, Ligotti's first two collections, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, were republished in one volume by Penguin Classics as Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. He was contributing editor to Grimoire from 1982 to 1985. Ligotti started his professional writing career in the early 1980s with short stories published in American small press magazines. The Washington Post called him 'the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction.' Career

The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction.

Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror writer. Horror fiction, weird fiction, dark fantasy

Conspiracy against the human race by thomas ligotti