Los cuentos del gusano: Verdad, evolución y antinatalismo en la ficción de lo extraño de H. P. Lovecraft y Thomas Ligotti

This article consists of a philosophical exploration of H. P. Lovecraft’s and Thomas Ligotti’s weird fiction, through the stories “The Festival” and “The Last Feast of Harlequin”, in which there is a narrative continuity. In these tales, we make explicit the issues of truth, evolution and antinatalism, which are linked to the presence of an animal that appears in both stories: the worm. In the conclusion, we clarify the components of weird fiction from the perspectives of Lovecraft and Ligotti.