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Cosmic Horror

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"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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Junji Ito Edition

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Help me out here... I don't know this one.

[–] cameron_ 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://anilist.co/manga/30436/Uzumaki-Spiral-into-Horror/ Read at your own risk of feeling icky afterwards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Character is from Uzumaki by Junji Ito. She just does that