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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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"Authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni tap into the Otherworld where cobblestone streets, twisted architectural churches and the Old Gods exist. Strange Stones wraps its tentacular arms around the reader as Lovecraftian genetic horrors are exposed. Lee and SanGiovanni cleverly incorporate locations such as Innsmouth, Dunwich and the Miskatonic River into a para-dimension full of nightmarish monstrosities and madness. These two authors deliver their abhorrent insanity with unique multi-faceted twists and turns.

If you are a Lovecraft fan, this novel is gonna knock your Necronomicon socks off. If you are not a fan, Lee and SanGiovanni still have you covered with scenarios of netherscape occults and unbound evils. This unholy communion of Lee’s and SanGiovanni’s written word is some major cosmic darkness..."

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