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Cosmic Horror

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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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The Cursed Ooze (infosec.pub)
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[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Profane vicissitude dwells beneath the barren land, doomed to mortal peril. Drinking upon our own demise in reckless cheer, humanity wastes the promises of the black blood of the earth, a curse spelled out through eons of rot.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I sell profane and profane accessories.

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That sounds exactly like something Logan Cunningham would narrate.

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I heard my boy Wayne June, of Darkest Dungeon and other such fame

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Exactly who I heard in my head reading it haha