The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti.pdf

Books by Thomas Ligotti

Fiction

Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Noctuary
The Nightmare Factory
My Work Is Not Yet Done
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
Teatro Grottesco

Poetry

I Have a Special Plan for This World
This Degenerate Little Town
Death Poems
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE


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Copyright 2007 Thomas Ligotti


Parts of this work were published in a different form in Fantastic Metropolis (Web site),
“Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti” by
Neddal Ayad, October 31, 2004; Horror: Another 100 Best Books, eds. Stephen Jones
and Kim Newman, “Thomas Ligotti on Sweeney Todd, 2005; The Tenant by Roland
Topor, Introduction by Thomas Ligotti, 2006; The Teeming Brain (Weblog), “’It’s All a
Matter of Personal Pathology’: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti” by Matt Cardin, 2006.
I would like to extend my thanks to the interviewers who provoked much of the matter
presented herein and to the editors and publishers who provided the occasion for same, to
Tim Jeski for supplying me with materials essential to this work, and to those who
offered me the benefit of ments throughout the stages of position. The
responsibility for the use made of these valued contributions lies entirely with the author.
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“I have to admit that the results of these considerations won’t amount to anything for
anyone who ‘stands in life still fresh and gay,’ as the songs says.”

—Jean Améry, On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death


Look at your body—
A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.

—Th