Cosmic Horror

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"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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The Department of Midnight, episode 1: The Cold Spot (youtu.be)

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From the team behind the animated Castlevania series (including the writer Warren Ellis, which may put some off):

Ep. 101: The Cold Spot

Starring James Callis and Alicia Witt

Dr. John Carnack is an investigator for the Department Of Experimental Oversight. Responding to a whistleblower call, he arrives at a lab to discover Dr. Sylvie Bestler’s personal experiment: to see what’s on the other side of the universe.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Cool audio drama, i'll add it to my podcast list.