this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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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..."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] BrundleFly2077 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, Watts is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Great story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ugh more unrealistic body standards. Two eyes, a mouth and putting up with gravity are quite enough effort for my daily life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Justin McElroy from The Adventure Zone and My Brother, My Brother, and Me?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks more like The Thing + Parasyte. Actually I'd watch the hell out of that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean Parasyte is definitely inspired by Carpenter's The Thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

True. Just thinking that usually the Thing tries to mimic what its copying, doesn't usually just have eyes on its hand for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If only someone didn't shoot the dude blatantly ignoring people and really wanted that dog did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, that's the thing!