What is Cosmic Horror anyway?

From our editor: We understand the horror of the familiar as uncanny and the horror of the unfamiliar as cosmic (broadly, very very broadly), but some of our most striking instances of cosmic horror are born from an engagement with the banal and uncanny. When Roger Luckhurst argues that cosmic and weird are less a series of genre conventions and more a way of getting something done, “a mode rather than a genre,” the thing the cosmic and the weird accomplish is a kind of radical unmasking of familiarity, not unfamiliarity. Read the entire article we have on the matter here!

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