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You’re all alone
In ‘The Rise of Scientific Philosophy’ the logical positivist philosopher Hans Reichenbach writes:
In Leibniz’s philosophy the rational side of modern science has found its most radical representation. The successful use of mathematical methods for the description of nature made Leibniz believe that all science can be ultimately transformed into mathematics. The idea of determinism, of [...]
London’s abandoned underground stations
Like Fritz Leiber and Thomas Ligotti, the setting for the weird fiction of Mark Samuels is often an urban environment. The British horror writer Ramsey Campbell describes Samuel’s stories as ‘Urban Tales of Terror’ in the introduction to Samuels’ latest collection of short stories, ‘Glyphotech and Other Macabre Stories.’
The setting for these urban tales of [...]
Thomas Ligotti
The blog Grim Reviews draws attention to a new interview with horror writer Thomas Ligotti, one of the most important writers of bleak fiction since Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. In this interview, Ligotti talks about his upcoming book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Short Life of Horror. In this book, the [...]
