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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Tom Sutton's "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" Portfolio — DMR Books (dmrbooks.com)

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"... I'm going to take a quick look at a Lovecraft work slightly off the trail of cosmic horror: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Like Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, I consider 'Dream-Quest' to be a flawed, but imaginatively powerful, novella/short novel of fantasy adventure with elements of cosmic horror.

I have a fair amount to say regarding 'Dream-Quest' (and the Dreamlands tales in general), but that is for another day. Tonight, I want to look at an artistic tribute to HPL's novel: Tom Sutton's 1978 portfolio, 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'..."

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