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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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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m just a Myrddraal nobody loves me

He’s just a Myrddraal protecting community

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Easy come easy go, will you let me go?

Fhtagn! No, we will not let you go (let him go)

Fhtagn! We will not let you go (let him go)

Fhtagn! We will not let you go (let me go)

Will not let you go (let me go)

Never, never, never, never let me go

No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Oh, Nyarlathotep, Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep, let me go

Yog-Sothoth has a body put aside for me

For me

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