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Cosmic Horror

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A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

For more Lovecraft & Mythos-inspired Cosmic Horror:-!lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world

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[–] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 9 points 6 days ago

The plot to consentacles

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

All the mouths sir.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 7 points 6 days ago

It wasn’t sexual assault, there was mistletoe.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago
[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You know the least u could do is credit the artiest

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Please take down these candid photos of my partner and I!

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

The thing?

It’s beautiful just the way it is.