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Big questions in books — H.P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror and the ineffable

Big questions in books — H.P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror and the ineffable

Update: 2025-07-10

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Cosmic horror is a genre that asks, what lurks in the in-between places? Who are we in the face of a vast and uncaring cosmos? H.P. Lovecraft's (rather mixed!) legacy is everywhere if you know where to look, but trying to put the ineffable into words has been a human obsession for thousands of years. What do we hope to find by courting the strange and unexplainable?

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Big questions in books — H.P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror and the ineffable

Big questions in books — H.P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror and the ineffable

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