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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Chaosium's 'Regency Cthulhu Collection' - Pride and Prejudice and Unspeakable Horrors Abound (www.belloflostsouls.net)

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"Chaosium’s new Regency Cthulhu Collection collects everything you need to play Call of Cthulhu in the time of Jane Austen’s England.

Some truths are better left unacknowledged altogether, like the unknowable elder things that lurk in the darkness between the stars or the ways of magic that call upon the dark designs of the elder gods. Through the lens of the Cthulhu Mythos, Regency England, specifically the kind of Jane Austen-type scenarios because that’s what Chaosium’s focus is (and it’s delicious), is full of unspeakable horrors alongside the regular, speakable ones.

Call it Shoggoths and Sensibility, or The Horror that Lurks Beneath Northanger Abbey if you prefer. But now, you too, can explore the weird world of Cthulhu and Regency times!"

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