my favorite: vathek frankenstein dracula short vampyre, polidori
@unfinishedsentenc530822 күн бұрын
Do you still upload videos?
@Taco101123 күн бұрын
I'm probably wrong, but is it fair to say that maybe it arose from anxiety? Fear of the unknown, of the unknowable, and the uncontrollable? Thinking that *something* is out there, but not knowing entirely what it is? If I am wrong, I'd like someone to explain because I have a feeling that it's probably wrong. I just wanna hear a different perspective
@masudaharris643526 күн бұрын
I think I am closer to understanding what cosmic horror is, but I'm not sure whether a particular film belongs to that genre. Would Alien be considered cosmic horror?
@jamiesehdev2663Ай бұрын
My fav horror genre... I collected all the greats lovecraft, Howard, belknap long, ashton smith, bloch, lieber etc.. It's the notion of there being no happy ending and our longing for knowledge and further experiences.. It being our ultimate undoing.. We long to see, to know,... But when we find the truth we recoil in horror in the revelation of there being no salvation for humanity... That's why things like sending signals into space searching for other intelligence... Or cern creating mini black holes. Research into parallel universes.. Scares me to the core... More than demons or monsters etc.. Our own search for knowledge will backfire one day... Sending us into a new "dark age"...
@brians132Ай бұрын
Some Classic Weird Fiction Stories you didn't mention:- 'The Moon Pool' by Abraham Merritt. 'The Music Of Erich Zann' by H.P. Lovecraft 'The Tower Of The Elephant' by Robert E Howard 'Black God's Kiss' by C.L. Moore 'Loup Garou' by R.B. Russell Enjoy!
@greenknightable19 күн бұрын
Yeah, the Moon Pool haunted me as a child. I was not good at remembering authors at the time. And it took me years to find that story again.😢
@rustyshackleford18752 ай бұрын
You bloody nailed this one. The channel should definitely have more subscribers. Thank-you!
@jamesplotkin46742 ай бұрын
THANK YOU, Mr. Narrator for pronouncing Cthulhu the way it was meant to sound!
@zanemarion72112 ай бұрын
I strongly believe I write weird fiction. I mix genres and often times the stories are very twisted. They don't align with the typical horror you see today but yet they do in ways. I explore the dark side of humanity a lot and also the what if this or that. I blend this in with reality at the same time.
@TheEldritchGod3 ай бұрын
Lovecraft! There's my Boi!
@SmileyTrilobite3 ай бұрын
I’m enchanted by Clark Ashton Smith’s zaniness. Two of my favorites are: The Double Shadow The Geas There’s a venerable tradition of weird fiction in Japan called kaidan (ghost stories) or kaiki (strange tales). Its characteristics are largely the same, especially the “ordinary life interrupted” aspect. Lafcadio Hearn wrote much in English about it, and there’s a multivolume English-language anthology titled Kaiki, Uncanny Tales from Japan. Two of my favorites are: The Face in the Hearth by Tanaka Kōtarō “Ino Mononoke Roku” which has multiple adaptations and may also count as a folk tale.
@kataliyun2263 ай бұрын
Can you say Cthulhu one more time...
@michaelholmes43743 ай бұрын
I love gothic horror 😊
@dark_natas_6663 ай бұрын
Great video.
@thatweirdgamerling99803 ай бұрын
Can Aliens be implemented into this genre?
@ChurchofCthulhu4 ай бұрын
Cthulhu fhtagn!
@evanfont9135 ай бұрын
Edgar Alan Puh
@Scipio4885 ай бұрын
"MORTATLITY"...?
@jeroenf18486 ай бұрын
Awesome video, thank you!
@johnjay706 ай бұрын
Your videos are great and I truly appreciate the obvious amount of time and effort you put into these. Thank you, sir!!
@scooble6 ай бұрын
I've always liked cosmic horror like it was a weird offshoot of science fiction, but it had significantly more impact after experiencing DMT
@lauragisi16786 ай бұрын
I wish you had more videos! They’re so entertaining AND informative, and that’s so difficult to find on this subject matter. Come back! :)
@BloodyShedProductions7 ай бұрын
Please make more videos !
@geordiejones56187 ай бұрын
I feel like New Weird is still so underexplored. Shows like The Venture Bros and Rick & Morty dip into New Weird but theres not enough horror usually. I'm working on a New Weird short story collection because I love that intersection of scifi, fantasy and horror.
@matthewredman78147 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm convinced Dead Space is a lovecraftian horror.
@cayreet59928 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. Just a little nitpick: the Romantic movement in literature (and art in general) has been around since the late 18th century and started out in Germany. German Romantic stories were then translated into English and sold both in the UK and the US. EDIT: after the translated stories had found their way to the UK and the US, writers there naturally also began to write Romantic literature.
@SanguineUltima8 ай бұрын
Ligotti's Teatro Grotesco is one of my all-time favorite collections of weird fiction, as well. Great video.
@sineater40778 ай бұрын
Starfield should have cosmic horror
@joebees218 ай бұрын
Please do more videos
@elankesnyman21678 ай бұрын
I hope you continue making videos! I binged the videos you have so far, and was quite disappointed to see that I got to the end. Very informative and well put together, and I actually quite like your accent.
@o.w.sproductions18739 ай бұрын
If you want cosmic horror in sound, listen to Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen
@LarryP2489 ай бұрын
This is next-level content. A similar book I read was a quantum leap in my thinking. "Stars Aligned" by Olivia Whitestone
@mark__glass9 ай бұрын
Cosmic horror is higher order of abstraction in the mind that begins with a sense of existential insignificance. It is born not from the knowledge there is an unknown, or unknown to be pointed at. Nor is it anxiety with respect to the uncertainty thereof. It is meta-awareness of the chasm between that which is possible to be known and that which we are aware may be beyond comprehension. It is a deeply cognitive response to this gulf, presenting as an uncontrolled descent towards oblivion of coherent self, with increasing awareness that within cannot possibly be reconciled with the scale of without. We are blown apart through meta-consciousness and assign prospective malevolence to the this boundless measurement, coupled with awe of the inexplicably sublime, because we can register no greater threat to our selfhood. That, is existential dread/horror.
@kimsimonson65159 ай бұрын
You are probably already aware of this, but in case you are not .. . Check out a wonderful work of experimental music made by David Tibet of Current 93 wherein he does his own spoken word version of Thoma Ligotti's "I Have A Special Plan For This World". Extremely dark and surreal and a chillingly disturbing piece of weird fiction set to sound.
@nadimasabri43899 ай бұрын
I want this story by writing please
@ThreadBomb9 ай бұрын
I don't think 'Jekyll and Hyde' is gothic.
@GabrielCCCP9 ай бұрын
the pit and the pendullum
@LinkmanWorld9 ай бұрын
What about the pretense of only believing in good spirits until you come across a demon
@SamSepiol19099 ай бұрын
Ligotti, Barron, Langan, VanderMeer and Vernon/Kingfisher are some of my favourite recent weird fiction writers.
@r3gret20799 ай бұрын
"Kululu" lol put some effort into it it. Hhis name is kltlthturitktjdoth tkhe8y3i3n😂😢Iobeu7wn628🇨🇭u82kylulululuktklgkjhtktltjktltltkltlt, I mean jeez c'mon man. Edit: I hear Bob is acceptable too.
@katieb13009 ай бұрын
The Others is the embodiment of gothic horror.
@TheCuttingBureau9 ай бұрын
Great video. "The House on the Borderland" was Hodgson, not Bierce, though, right?
@igorrenfield658810 ай бұрын
I don’t think The House on the Borderland wasn’t written by Ambrose Bierce. I think it was written by William Hope Hodgson.
@igorrenfield658810 ай бұрын
Sorry for the typo. Double negative.
@roxanavasilakis943510 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, learner 🌳
@DavideMazzetti10 ай бұрын
The problem is that these days, people want and expect to be spoon fed. If they're required to use their imagination and not have everything explained, then the work is deemed to be a bad one.
@dylanwolf10 ай бұрын
Bad scares in modern films neatly summed up by Mark Kermode, "Quiet, quiet, quiet... Nun!"