Lovecraft's Cosmicism Explored - How H.P Lovecraft Created The Most Terrifying Genre Of Horror!

[@RebecaLawrence-w6e]

HP Lovecraft was a unusual man. A great story teller. Life wasn't easy on him. From a young age. It sounds like his imagination opened the doors to explain things. It gave the rest of us a new reason to fear the unknown. The birth of cosmic horror. A lot of todays authors have looked up to Lovecraft. Stephen King being one of them. Look at It. For example. John Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness. Is a good example of Lovecraftian inspiration. The Color of Outer Space. Alien was hard to understand. Kind of like Stephen King's It. Thank you for the history of the father of cosmic horror. I like the HP Lovecraft stories.

[@partofthetribe3277]

I love stuff about lovecraft's cosmology

[@soulreaver1983]

In his house,Cthulhu lies sleeping!😈

[@agm5424]

Another "way of thinking" or philosophy opposite to the nihilism of cosmic horror is what I would call "Cosmic Wonder" or "Cosmic Significance". This would refer to stories where readers follow humans, mainly an individual or pair of individuals, who are exploring and taking significant actions in a universe that is filled with diverse life, ancient mysteries, ancient races, god like aliens, a few legitimate cosmic horror entities you don't want to come across and a few hints that the universe itself is somewhat alive and has a consciousness of it's own. Unlike in a cosmic horror stories the protagonists in a cosmic wonder story aren't random people that die or lose their minds at the end but established individuals that take center stage in different stories that may be seen as separate stories but at some point it becomes clear that they have been taking part in a larger and grander narrative. And while in cosmic horror stories humans are insignificant in the universe, their actions in a cosmic significance/wonder story actually have meaning and have an actual effect on the universe as a whole; sometimes it is hinted that they have being guided (not controlled) and protected by some superior force like unseen god like aliens or an actual will of the universe/ a legitimate god. Another factor would be that while cosmic horror works better through literature in order to let the reader's imagination fill the horrifying details, a cosmic wonder story would have to be through a medium with visuals that would fill the eyes with great art and sublime imagery. One good example of this type of story is the movie Cloud Atlas, wich is a great movie regardless of if what most people say. However the best example I know is the french comic Valerian and Laureline, a story which contains all the previously mentioned factors which after reading lead me to come up with this concept, highly recommend the read. Ironically I read the comic right after reading Alann Moore's Providence, the man's take on lovecraftian horror wich helped made the parallels between this types of stories hard to ignore.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I love the works of HP Lovecraft but I just genuinely cannot understand why people are afraid or made uncomfortable by their insignificance. I genuinely don't get it. Like yeah of course we're insignificant. Just like your ancestors are. Like how many of you know your great-great-grandparents life story? It's like saying the sky is blue and knowing the sky is blue is scary. I just don't see the correlation. I wonder if his works are so popular now because people are so much more self-obsessed then they have ever been in history? Are people really that afraid of being forgotten? And if so why? I love his works because I think they're so unique. But I definitely don't find any of them scary. And it's really unfortunate that so many of his monsters have tentacles. Because I feel an entirely different emotion when i see a tentacle monster and it isnt fear 😂

[@beefyronin]

Lovecrafts cat is the most OP of all his creations.....

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