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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'All You Need Is Death' - Folk and Cosmic Horror Share a Fear of the Unknowable | collider.com (lemmy.world)

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Anna, Aleks, and master song collector Agnes (Catherine Siggins) find themselves in the strange old woman, Rita Concannon’s living room. Rita (Olwen Fouéré) says she might have a song for them, but it has to be dealt with cautiously...

Official Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ox621LfE_4

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