Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror
H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft's death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.
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Consider that HP was writing at a time when we were first figuring out that the Milky Way wasn't the only galaxy, just figuring out how unfathomably HUGE the universe is. Knowing this and looking deeply into the night sky kinda freaks me out, even in 2025. This was all new to Lovecraft's generation.
And that's not even touching on the other scientific advances of the time. We were hit in the face with the fact that what we thought was reality was nowhere even close. Lots of room for unimaginable horrors!
Consider this pic from 1927. All those minds were active at once, tearing down our past conceptions of truth!
Attendees
Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans RichardsonAnd I'm only highlighting the scientists I'm familiar with!
HP actually describe in his lore the universe as infinite and part of a higher multiverse