Books › In The Dust Of This Planet › Books like it
If you loved
Books like In The Dust Of This Planet
A cerebral plunge into the abyss, using supernatural horror to confront the terrifying limits of human philosophy. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with In The Dust Of This Planet.
- dread-soaked
- unsettling
- cerebral
- apocalyptic
- 01
The conspiracy against the human race
Thomas Ligotti
A meticulously argued descent into the terrifying realization that human consciousness is a tragic evolutionary mistake.
- 02
Song for the Unraveling of the World
Brian Evenson
A masterclass in the uncanny that quietly and methodically dismantles your grip on reality.
- 03
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
A sharp, claustrophobic diagnosis of the modern condition that articulates the exact shape of your everyday exhaustion.
- 04
Songs of a dead dreamer and Grimscribe
Thomas Ligotti
An atmospheric descent into lurid dreamscapes and decaying cities that exposes the sickening madness of human consciousness.
- 05
Violence
Slavoj Zizek
An incendiary, pop-culture-infused philosophical interrogation of the violence hidden within our everyday systems and language.
- 06
Paperbacks from Hell
Grady Hendrix
A gleeful, blood-spattered love letter to the gloriously unhinged era of vintage mass-market horror.
- 07
First as tragedy, then as farce
Slavoj Zizek
A combative, take-no-prisoners philosophical autopsy of the twenty-first century's defining political and economic failures.
- 08
The Weird
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
A massive, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities that will permanently tilt your perception of reality.
- 09
Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
A hallucinatory descent into a mutating wilderness that demands you surrender your understanding of what it means to be human.
- 10
Philosophy here and now
Lewis Vaughn
A clear, engaging roadmap through the dense forest of human thought, connecting ancient questions to modern life.
- 11
Think
Simon Blackburn · 1999
A clarifying plunge into the deep end of human thought that leaves you looking at the everyday world with fresh, questioning eyes.
- 12
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
A quiet, radical invitation to step off the treadmill of the attention economy and root yourself in the physical world.
