Books like The conspiracy against the human race

The conspiracy against the human race by Thomas Ligotti reads as bleak, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Noctuary

Thomas Ligotti · 1994

Shares the bleak thread

78% genome match

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron · 2007

Shares the bleak thread

69% genome match

The Call of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft · 2016

Shares the bleak thread

69% genome match

Dark gods

T. E. D. Klein · 1985

Both explore cosmic horror

67% genome match

De l'inconvénient d'être né

Emil Cioran · 1973

Shares the bleak thread

69% genome match

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson · 1946

Same horror feel

62% genome match

Some Will Not Sleep

Adam Nevill · 2016

Both explore cosmic horror

65% genome match

Alone with the horrors : the great short fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991

Ramsey Campbell · 1993

Both explore cosmic horror

65% genome match

Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon · 1937

Both explore consciousness

61% genome match

Providence

Alan Moore · 2017

Both explore cosmic horror

63% genome match

The mind parasites

Colin Wilson · 1967

Both explore consciousness

66% genome match

The Fuller Memorandum

Charles Stross · 2010

Both explore cosmic horror

59% genome match