As Ishmael floats helplessly atop the ocean deep, he becomes the stuff of Cosmicism - a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. Death ends their misunderstanding, and negates their madness. The true madness of man is that of trying to apply a reasonableness to an unreasonable cosmos.
The following essay is by Pete Rawlik, author of the upcoming Lovecraftian novel Reanimators. The term “Lovecraftian Horror” gets bandied about quite a bit, including by me, but what does it mean? How do we, (meaning I) define it? Some people use it interchangeably with “Cthulhu Mythos” or “Cosmic Horror”, but to me this is sloppy,…
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