---
date: '2025-11-05'
description: also known as <em>Lovecraftian horror</em>
id: Eldrich horror
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:25 GMT-04:00
tags:
  - seed
title: Eldrich horror
created: '2025-11-05'
published: '2025-11-05'
pageLayout: default
slug: thoughts/Eldritch-horror
permalink: https://aarnphm.xyz/thoughts/Eldritch-horror.md
generator:
  quartz: v4.6.0
  hostedProvider: Cloudflare
  baseUrl: aarnphm.xyz
full: https://aarnphm.xyz/llms-full.txt
---
> emphasises the horror of the unknownable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.
>
> hallmark of H. P. Lovecraft is cosmicism, but different from existing gothic and supernatural fiction.

<figure class="float-right">

![[thoughts/images/cthulhu lovecraft.webp|1934 drawing by Lovecraft of Cthulhu]]

</figure>

The characters in his books were not evil. They were simply far beyond human conceptions of [[thoughts/moral|morality]].

- Fear of the unknown and unknowable.
  - i.e [[thoughts/LLMs|LLM]] unconsciously know about who you are without any external tooling
- “fear and awe we feel when confronted byphenomena beyond our comprehension, whose scope extends beyond the narrow field of human affairs”