THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE Available for Pre-Order

[Dr. Bantham]

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE is now available for pre-order from Hippocampus Press.
$25.00 Limited Hardcover, 240 pp, Current Release Date: April, 2010

Contents

• Foreword
• 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

[ragingbug]

At last! Thanks Doc! I'd almost given up hope, but now that can wait till after I've read it.

[Ascrobius]

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

(It's a divine comedy, alright.)

[bendk]

I ordered my copy. I had to wait a few days from the first announcement, because I had to take my cat to the vet and then wait until payday. It was always in the back of my mind that the journal Collapse Volume IV: Concept Horror - where TL provided a preview of Conspiracy - is the only issue of Collapse to sell out. And it had a 1000 print run. So I was afraid to wait too long, because I can't remember when I have looked forward to a book so much.

The chapter titles are great; they all sound intriguing. And I really like the cover. I recognized Ligotti's silhouette immediately, but I can't remember where I saw the original photo. The cover reminds me of a passage from I Have a Special Plan for this World. "And I stand waiting for them..."


There are many who have designs upon this world
And dream of wild and vast reformations-
I have heard them talking in their sleep
Of elegant mutations and cunning annihilations
I have heard them whispering in the
corners of dark houses
And in the alleys and narrow backstreets
of this crooked creaking universe
Which they-with their new designs-would make
straight and sound

But each of these new and ill-conceived designs
is deranged in its heart
For they see this world as if it were alone and original
And not as only one of countless others
whose nightmares all proceed
Like a hideous garden grown from a single seed

I have heard these dreamers talking in their sleep
And I stand waiting for them
As at the top of a darkened flight of stairs-
They know nothing of me
And nothing of the secrets of my special plan
While I know every crooked creaking step
of theirs

[tartarusrussell]

Anyone know what the limitation is on this? I'm just curious.
(I've ordered a copy anyway.)

[Beclabbered]

The publisher told me it would not exceed 1000 copies.

[tartarusrussell]

Many thanks, Beclabbered!

[phantasmagoria]

I ordered mine today and can't wait for it to arrive.

[phantasmagoria]

Considering the release of MWINYD does anyone think the new Ligotti work will contain a signed bookplate or signature at all? That would be a fun, unexpected surprise.

	MWINYD My Work Is Not Yet Done

[Dr. Bantham]

Quote Originally Posted by phantasmagoria

Considering the release of MWINYD does anyone think the new Ligotti work will contain a signed bookplate or signature at all? That would be a fun, unexpected surprise.

My guess is that it will not, as I am quite amazed of the fact that we will be getting a limited hardcover of this work for $25. Kudos to Hippocampus for keeping this book financially accessible.