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..."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Or maybe a desert villager named Ezekiel with literally zero education and world experiences who was high on drugs saw a peacock which likely escaped from a local traveling merchant cage because those animals come from a fucking jungle, and the idiot couldn't explain what he saw and just attributed it to an angel because he and his religious buddies are all fucking stupid.