Things We Were Not Meant to Know: H. P. Lovecraft and Cosmic Horror

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Things We Were Not Meant to Know: H. P. Lovecraft and Cosmic Horror

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Things We Were Not Meant to Know: H. P. Lovecraft and Cosmic Horror

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. . . horror for Lovecraft involved the breaking, or disturbance, of cosmic law—in short, things that are against nature, or at least nature as humans conceive it.

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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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