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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Are we allowed to post our own work? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by UniversalMonk@lemm.ee to c/cosmichorror@lemm.ee

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Direct link to my story, "The Grasp of Midnight’s Thorn" on a different Lemmy instance:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/27303439

This genre is actually my favorite and makes up most of my own writing.

I checked the rules and didn’t see anything against posting our own work, but if it’s not allowed, I’m happy to take it down.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

Great work! Next time you can cross-post it here too, just click the icon

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

awesome.

I saved it so I can read it in it's entirety later.

thanks

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This seems like a niche enough genre to not have to worry about self promotion taking over. Do you post on royal road or somewhere similar?