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Anonymous Sat Jun 4 13:39:07 2016 No.8123456 [Reply] [Original]

What is some essential cosmic horror?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 13:39:55 2016 No.8123459 >>8123456 >cosmic horror >horror Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:08:28 2016 No.8124241 >>8123459 thats not what that is

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:11:32 2016 No.8124260 Could you give some examples of books that fit the "cosmic horror" genre?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:22:11 2016 No.8124307 >>8123456 Are you talking about Lovecraft?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:41:48 2016 No.8124370 >>8123459 >>8124241 Mostly Harmless is pretty much cosmic horror like what the fuck, it was one the funniest and most depressing books I read in months

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:43:15 2016 No.8124375 >>8123456 cosmic horror is bullshit that avoids the uncomfortable horrors of the human condition, and is one of many banes on genre fiction. If you like it you're probably reading for the wrong reasons.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:44:17 2016 No.8124381 >>8124375 >you're probably reading for the wrong reasons. drown yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:44:57 2016 No.8124387 >>8124381 I'm not losing as many brain cells as you are investing in this tripe, try again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:54:29 2016 No.8124432 >>8124375 Look at this pleb thinking there's a disconnect between the human condition and fear of the unknown. You're the one reading for the wrong reasons, go back to r-ddit and pretend to be an intellectual there.

Anonymous Sat Jun 4 17:56:07 2016 No.8124438

>>8124432
Fear of the unknown is one very minor subset of the human condition, focusing on it too hard as genre has done blurs the lines between concrete and human.

All in all what's there to be said about it that hasn't already been said. I find cosmic horror totally devoid of any kind of inspiration.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 23:17:30 2016 No.8125518 "A Colder War" by Charles Stross, from his collection "Toast" is pretty neat. the superpowers try to weaponize the Old Ones and things go badly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 23:33:16 2016 No.8125567 >The human condition top 10 ways to identify a pseud

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 00:16:23 2016 No.8125715 >>8124307 not particularly ive read all his shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 04:22:47 2016 No.8126312 >>8125567 oh shut up

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