The Cosmic Horror of Civilization
If our inborn fear of the unknown lies at the heart of any good Horror story, then Cosmic Horror is the crystallized essence of terror. Indeed, the DNA of Cosmic Horror is rooted in the human experience unfolding against a backdrop of forces so behemoth and unknowable that we are…
The Substrate of the Purely Villainous
Any true aficionado of the villainous–of antagonists in film, literature, interactive media–knows that the truly diabolical are not those with mundane or even sympathetic aims. They are those whose reprehensibility is alien to us, unnerving in their capacity for estrangement from the normal motivations which occupy our species. We, as…