🏷️ Cosmic Horror
12 entries tagged with this trope
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowers bond over fishing until they discover a cursed reservoir. What lies beneath the water connects to cosmic horror beyond human comprehension. Modern Lovecraftian masterpiece.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
Kara discovers a portal in her uncle's oddities museum that leads to a world of willows and wrongness. Cozy horror that slowly tightens the screw until you can't breathe.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
A hole appears in the wall of Kara's uncle's bizarre museum, leading to an otherworldly place of willows and wrongness. Lovecraftian horror with a refreshingly human voice.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside than the outside. A manuscript about a documentary that may not exist. The most terrifying novel ever written about architecture.
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowed men find comfort in fishing together until they hear about a cursed creek. What starts as a quiet grief story becomes eldritch horror of the highest order.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
Kara finds a hole in her uncle's museum wall that leads to another world. A world of willows, water, and things that are definitely watching. Cozy horror that gets less cozy fast.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Four women enter Area X, a quarantined zone where nature has gone wrong. What they find defies biology, physics, and sanity. The less you know going in, the better.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
Kara finds a hole in the wall of her uncle's taxidermy museum. It leads to another world. That world has willows. The willows are watching. Cozy narrator meets cosmic dread.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
Kara finds a hole in the wall of her uncle's bizarre museum. It leads somewhere else. Somewhere with willows, and things that wear human shapes. Cozy horror at its finest.
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher · 2020
Kara finds a hole in the wall of her uncle's weird museum. It leads somewhere else. Somewhere wrong. Cozy horror with a sense of humor — until it isn't cozy at all.
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowers hear a story about a creek that fishes for more than fish.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house on Ash Tree Lane is slightly bigger on the inside than the outside. The footnotes spiral into madness. The most formally inventive horror novel ever written.