art from The Crow by James O'Barr “To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those who sneer at the sun and everything upon which it beats down. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness.”1 So begins the Sick to Death chapter of Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, a collection of essays on pessimism and supernatural h…
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