Lovecraftian horror

Lovecraftian horror, often called cosmic horror, is a horror subgenre combining horror and "weird fiction" and focuses on the unknowable and incomprehensible. It is named for author H.P. Lovecraft who largely defined the genre of cosmic horror and is created its most iconic elements.
== History ==
Many of the origins of what would be called Lovecraftian horror could be found in the works of authors Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Robert W. Chambers, and Lord Dunsany. H.P. Lovecraft, in his own work, began creating a mythos using supernatural and extraterrestrial elements that extend to a pre-human era. The threats and horrors often rich, in the words of Lovecraft, a "cosmic" level, with the threat being not to an individual but to a world or even existence itself. Despite being so closely associated with "Lovecraftian horror", Lovecraft was simply one of many writers who collaborated on concepts that would define this genre.
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