It was not published in either the Japanese or translated tankōbon at Kentaro Miura's request fearing that it might limit the freedom of the story development.
”Reasons for pain. Reasons for sadness. Reasons for life. Reasons for death. Reasons why their lives were filled with suffering. Reasons why their deaths were absurd. They wanted reasons for the destiny that kept transcending their knowledge. And I produce those, as it is what I have been brought into existence for. I control fate."—The Idea of Evil explaining its creation
I've loved this genre for ages. Lovecraft made me appreciate the English language in ways school never did. That said, I really came here to post this:
https://youtu.be/axMbZ7eGHoA
One of the best shorts about cosmic horror I've ever seen.
This is the most enchanting aspect of Cosmic Horror for me. I've never really thought of House of Leaves as Cosmic Horror before​ but I totally get it. The basic concept of the houseI think my favorite take are the spatial terrors. You know, where space and time and physics just don't work as intended. Places bigger within than without, closed loops that drive you insane from being forever lost, endless hallways, doors to nowhere, architecture shifting and changing when it shouldn't, maps and compasses not working, walking in a straight line and ending up where you started. Or maybe that place doesn't want to you to leave, that it might have malignant sentience
There's something about a thing as solid as a building or piece of land changing like that, that slow pit-in-your-stomach realization of being lost magnified exponentially
The French horror mini-series Beyond The Walls delves into that concept
Nice, I finally got a brand of threads
You could argue that as the Space Jockeys/Engineers appear in Alien that as the beings above the main antagonist(s), The Xenomorph, they would count as a form of unknowable cosmic horror. Even though, we see in Prometheus that The Engineers are far from immortal or all-powerful, they are creators of humans (and Xenomorphs) and their 'black goo' stuff has the power to create terrifying forms of life from pretty much nothing. They also view humans as a forgotten experiment to dispose of without much thought.
Novella is very similar to the movie, but movie's ending is waaaay different
I think the adaptation is better than the novella, mainly because of the ending. Probably one of the most affecting movie endings I've ever seen, also the reveal of that
Stephen King absolutely loves the movie ending too. Thematically, I prefer the novella's ending, but the movie's ending is so dark and fucked up that you can't not appreciate its audacity
