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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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This post is all about 23 must-read Cosmic Horror Books, you need to read as soon as possible!

  1. Monster by Christopher Cunningham

  2. A Song for the Void by Andrew C. Piazza

  3. A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs (Author), and Chuck Wendig (Introduction)

  4. Periphery by Michael Winter

  5. Violent Wonder by Fredrick Niles

  6. Tales from Brackish Harbor by Cassandra L. Thompson

  7. By the Light of Dead Star by Andrew Van Wey

  8. Dead Sea by Tim Curran

  9. Tales From the Gas Station by Andrew Van Wey

  10. Suburban Monster by Christopher Hawkins

  11. You Shall Never Know Security by J.R. Hamantaschen

  12. Coffinwood by Aaron Beardsell

  13. Dead Shift by John Llewellyn Probert

  14. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

  15. What Lurks Beneath by Ryan Lockwood

  16. Cthulhu Reloaded by David Conyers

  17. What Lurks Beneath by Eddie Generous

  18. Let Sleeping Gods Lie by David J. West

  19. Head Like a Hole by Andrew Van Wey

  20. Kraulaak by S.R. Marks

  21. Shadow over Odiome by Seth W. James

  22. Terror at Twll Du by J.S. Douglas

  23. The Recluse by David Barker

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