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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9512192" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Cosmic horror which does not emphasize Lovecraft:Cosmic horror emerged from so-called “weird tales” of the 19th century, stories of encounter with the supernatural and the bizarre by authors like {Poe, Machen, Dunsany, etc etc}. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines like Weird Tales offered a home to authors writing stories that combined the earlier legacies with fresh monsters and mythology, and perspectives shaped by the rapidly advancing sciences of their day. The more ambitious myth-makers aimed to show fictional takes on what most them believed was the true state of things: a cosmos in which human activities and concerns are completely irrelevant to anything beyond us, and which has aspects utterly incomprehensible to us. Many of them, like {alphabetical list including Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, HPL, and a few more}, became regular correspondents and friends, sharing ideas back and forth. The pulp magazines faded in the 1950s-60s and cosmic horror stories appeared for a while mostly in collections from obscure small presses. But authors like Stephen King brought their ideas and some of their recurring gods and monsters back into wider circulation, as did the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. {Then zoom forward to the current century with bits about Kaird Barron, Caitlin Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, etc.}That’s completely off the top of my head, but it’s the general sort of thing I do. All the historical stuff - 1970s and earlier - would take up less space then talking about current and recent writers, directors, and artists. Id be much more likely to give a sentence to Beksiński than Lovecraft. ( <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksi%C5%84ski" target="_blank">Zdzisław Beksiński - Wikipedia</a> )</blockquote>

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