Hey everyone! 👋 This is our official "get to know each other" post for the whole group. Jump into the comments and tell us about yourself! (no pressure of course) - What got you into cosmic horror? - Since everyone here is into the same thing, what content would you recommend we check out and why? Quick note: Feel free to self promo, but don't make it all about selling stuff - we want to get to know YOU as a person, not just your pitch! After you introduce yourself, scroll through and check out what others have shared. Leave some replies and connect with people - that's what this is all about! Can't wait to meet you all properly! 🙂 Cheers, Matt

Personally, I find any fate involving infinite or near-infinite time dilation/looping to be the most unsettling. The concept of eternity is already so far beyond our human ability to functionally grasp and a bit disconcerting even in the best of situations. If such an eternity involves purposeful torment, the result is just horrifying to me. In other words, I’m most afraid of those situations that make death by even the most excruciating mechanism seem like a mercy. SPOILERS AHEAD for “The Endless” (film) and “The Long Dream” (short story) For instance, in the film “The Endless,” the scene in which a character is forced to relive a gruesome death for eternity in a singular, seconds-long loop — all while maintaining an ongoing line of consciousness — has always given me the chills. After countless repetitions, the looping death would almost seem like an afterthought in comparison to the hopelessly inescapable nature of your plight. If we count Junji Ito’s short story/manga “The Long Dream” as cosmic horror, the concept of an increasingly long series of phantasmagoric nightmares (making it such that you spend millions or even billions of years trapped in a hellish, alien dreamscape each time you sleep, while everyone else experiences time normally) also freaks me out.

Hello friends, hopefully you are all doing well today! I wanted to include this new discussion format for us and see if you liked it. The goal here is just to have some fun thinking about real things that have happened or are happening and what the causes could have been. Think old legends and lore, mysteries of the universe etc. I’ve thought about this dancing plague more than a few times over the years. I wonder if it’s more legend than fact, but certainly seems very cosmic horror like as a group of people driven to madness. Have you heard of it? What do you think caused it? Share your knowledge!

I just did a writeup for a book I finished over a weekend called The Breach (normally not that fast of a reader but this one had its hooks in me). Excellent piece of sci fi cosmic horror for those interested - reminded me a ton of 14 by Peter Clines which is one of my favorite books of all time. What stuck with you that you enjoyed over the past month that you think everyone should check out?

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