Lovecraft had a pretty bleak view of life therefore Cosmicism may strike one as nihilistic and extremely pessimistic, however this is not quite so.
Lovecraft thought of himself as neither a pessimist nor an optimist but rather as a “cosmic” indifferentist, a theme expressed in his fiction..
Sure, Edgar Allan Poe wrote some works that would today be considered cosmic horror (like “MS.
Found in a Bottle”), H.
P.
Lovecraft is widely thought of as the father of cosmic horror as his work defined the subgenre..
Lovecraft had a pretty bleak view of life therefore Cosmicism may strike one as nihilistic and extremely pessimistic, however this is not quite so.
Lovecraft thought of himself as neither a pessimist nor an optimist but rather as a “cosmic” indifferentist, a theme expressed in his fiction..
The tentacle-faced creature Cthulhu is H.P.
Lovecraft's most enduring eldritch creation.
But while Lovecraft may be Cthulhu's inventor, this monster has outgrown its creator, impacting both horror fiction and the real world in significant and unexpected ways..
Lovecraft's cosmicism was a result of his feeling of humanity's existential helplessness in the face of what he called the "infinite spaces" opened up by scientific thought, and his belief that humanity was fundamentally at the mercy of the vastness and emptiness of the cosmos..
Lovecraft's cosmicism was a result of his feeling of humanity's existential helplessness in the face of what he called the "infinite spaces" opened up by scientific thought, and his belief that humanity was fundamentally at the mercy of the vastness and emptiness of the cosmos..
Lovecraftian Cosmicism – Existentialism, Absurdism and Nihilism.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos and the creator of the literary philosophy known as Cosmicism, emphasising the cosmic horror of the unknown..
Lovecraftian Cosmicism – Existentialism, Absurdism and Nihilism.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos and the creator of the literary philosophy known as Cosmicism, emphasising the cosmic horror of the unknown..
Writer Dirk W.
Mosig noted that Lovecraft was a "mechanistic materialist" who embraced the philosophy of cosmic indifferentism and believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and uncaring universe.
Common themes related to cosmicism in Lovecraft's fiction are the insignificance of humanity in the universe and the search for knowledge ending in disaster. Lovecraftian characters notably become insane from the elimination of recognizable geometry.
H.
P.
Lovecraft, writer and creator of cosmicism.
Cosmicism is the literary philosophy developed and used by the American writer H.
P.
Lovecraft in his fiction.
Lovecraft's cosmicism was a result of his feeling of humanity's existential helplessness in the face of what he called the "infinite spaces" opened up by scientific thought, and his belief that humanity was fundamentally at the mercy of the vastness and emptiness of the cosmos.
American author (1890–1937)
