Philosophical Horror, Perspectives ofthe 21st Century Literature

El terror filosófico, perspectivas de la literatura del siglo XXI

The purpose of this article is to show the characteristics of a subgenre of the literature of terror, named by the critics as philosophical terror. Thus, this paper exposes the ways in which this style, guided by its main exponent Thomas Ligotti, feeds on classical formulations of terror proposed by Poe, then mixes postures in the style of Peter Wessel Zapfe. To go deep into a nouveau narrative
framework that is fresh to the enlightened terror reader, an yet, this style maintains a traditional and historical heritage framed on a situacional context that allows it to explore further aspects such as consuisness, the city or the exercise of men as a citizen. This article is born as an answer to the question. Is there a characteristic in Ligotti’s philosophical horror for the 21st century literature? proposed by Litterae, a research group from the Caldas University.