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I don't know much, I want to read Cosmic horror from other writers that Lovecraft (no issues with him tho)
Preferably not from the Mythos, just the sense of existential dread at the cosmos

>> No.16929409

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, I think it actually influenced Lovecraft

>> No.16929470

>>16929409
Thanks!! Anon

>> No.16929637

>>16929348
Not exactly /lit/, but some games do a better job of conveying cosmic horror better than literature does.
>bloodborne
>darkest dungeon
>dead space
>saya no uta

>> No.16929935

>>16929637
I know them but thanks anon

>> No.16929959

>>16929348
Arthur Machen
William Hope Hodgson
The first few stories in Robert Chambers's The King in Yellow were hugely influential on cosmic horror.

Lovecraft also loved Ambrose Bierce.

>> No.16930199

Is the Aspect Emperor Trilogy cosmic horror?

>> No.16930268

>>16930199
Sounds like fantasy, unless there are things I don't know (All summaries are bare bones)

>> No.16930313

The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke is technically just sci-fi, but I think the concept has a lovely cosmic horror flair

>> No.16931095

>>16930313
How?

>> No.16931337

Arthur Machen has already been mentioned but specifically the Great God Pan is a good one to read and surprisingly fucked up for when it was written

>> No.16931383

>>16929348
Obituary's old stuff is fucking based anon.

>> No.16931461

>>16929348
Don't Dream by Donald Wandrei, The Golden Age of Weird Fiction (two volumes) by Frank Belknap Long, Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (6 volumes).

>> No.16932016

>>16931461
Thanks!

>> No.16932390

There’s a short manga by Junji Ito that’s quite entertaining about a giant blob light years away rapidly creeping up on earth can’t remember the name but a very good read and some nice art

>> No.16932464

>>16931337
>and surprisingly fucked up for when it was written
it wouldn't be surprising if you were actually familiar with the literature of the time period

>> No.16932473

>>16931383
thought i was looking at /metal/ for a second. this album is pretty good though

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>>16932390
Hellstar Remina I believe you're referring too.

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16932626

there's a pulp horror/scifi writer I'm trying to remember. All i can recall about him is that he was very young when he wrote (I think he died young too, in his 20s) and that Lovecraft said he was the greatest. Anyone know who I'm talking about?

>> No.16932648

>>16932626
Robert Howard?

>> No.16932655

>>16932648
it wasn't him but googling him led me to the right one, Clark Ashton Smith. I was wrong about his death.
thanks for the help

>> No.16932679

>>16932655
No problem baby.

>> No.16932710

>>16932464
k

>> No.16932753

>>16932626
Smith was a chad. Fucked milfs left and right, fought wildfires single handedly, outlived pretty much all his fellow writers, worked to feed his parents and lived most of his life without electricity.

>> No.16932934

>>16932016
You can read Smith's short stories on eldritchdark

>> No.16932993

>>16929348
Not /lit/ but 2001 Space Odyssey (The movie)

>> No.16933021

Hey
Anyone know a story where the character travels to this island and he finds this woman and everyone is slightly weird and it's like they came from the past or some alternate timeline and there's a kingdom and then he goes back again to reality.

>> No.16933110

>>16929348
can we make a damm horror chart so we dont have to call everything "lovecraftian" or "cosmic"?

>> No.16933173

>>16929348
One of Lovecraft's favourite M.R. James stories was Count Magnus. It's quite easy to see why he did too.

>> No.16933319

>>16933021
The Uncharted Isle by Clark Ashton Smith... maybe.

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>>16929348
the bible.

>> No.16933380

>>16932648
He was pinpals with lovecraft as well.

>> No.16934412

bump

>> No.16934518

>>16933021
the time machine? if it is, its great. if its not id like to read that

>>16930313
came here to say this. tho its less sci fi and more theological horror, the best kind of cosmic horror

>> No.16934716

>>16929637
Darkest Dungeon isn't horrifying at all. It's just another "Lovecraft game". And Saya no Uta is more of a psychological horror thing.