cosmic horror

The year is 1921, and there's a stormy breeze on the wind. The gales of change continue to blow, making you drift along from town to town, like many others. Jobs are few and far between, at least ones that don't involve dangerous work and horrible pay. Something in this world has always felt...

The Girl Across the Street A young boy looked strangely at his parents as they were lightly arguing with each other about something. He was confused as well, knowing that this was all so unexpected brought a form of curiosity to his senses given his mom was so adamant that they all went...

In Exordia, Seth Dickinson's new novel, Anna Sinjari, a Kurdish refugee who is now working a 9-5 job in New York, is fired from her job, breaks up with her boyfriend, and meets a snake lady space alien who tells her that heaven and hell are real, souls exist, and also God's true name is Godd...

RAT-TAT-TAT The burst of my heavy stubber bit my hands, not even the callouses on them able to take the rattle of the gun from painful to merely stinging. The stink of hot metal pierced through the haze of powder and smoke, blood and puke, shit and piss, a smell that I never thought would ever...

Complex Entwining Detected. Deploying multifocal array. Elevated levels of paradoxical fractals, the ACCORD fails. Impossible constants, interference of greater strata observed. Engineer being selected. Qualifications unable to be met. Reducing stringency. Qualifications unable to be met...

Introduction: A Bundle of Curiosities Tell Us, O Sages, of the Great Prefiguration That Fragile Font of Liberation From which Our Present Age derives. It was in that Place, that Time (A Rudiment between the Planes) That the Wall was made to contain Itself And Heaven turned Inward...

Soleil City, one of the larger cities of Lumiere Kingdom, was known for it's wide variety of magical products and resources for Summoners. On the northern half of the city, there were different types of shops and stalls that sold anything that a Summoner was looking for. The streets were busy...

The Natural Corporate Culture of Office Drones As I head to the break room for my lunch break, I happen to look out the window in the hallway leading to it, and I stop in my tracks. Our offices rent the entire twelfth floor of a commercial building, giving us a scenic view of the city in all...

Beta Read by Rocketmce, and the one who helped me out when I got stuck and helped me gain inspiration to write this fic. Ambassador of Carcosa Chapter: Prologue I am unsure as to what is happening. My eyes feel as if they are on fire, my brain feels like jelly with its glass shattered. My...

The Silver Key "The void is beyond all.....it consumes all. Do not cry, do not run for it will come for you soon..." Arkham City was a den of crime and debauchery, with mass poverty lingering everywhere and everyone and everything at each other's throat, no wonder the rate of death was...

I write these lines while wondering if my life may be forfeit. Maybe I could keep on living like I always have, but curiousity drives me; the pervasive need to know has grown beyond comprehension, consuming me like a bottomless chasm. This journal is meant to help order my thoughts before I meet...

On The Nature Of Becoming I often look up at the sky. It's something many people do, I think. I don't know if others feel the same, but I do not much like looking at the sky during the day. The blue or gray of the day-sky always feel... wrong, somehow. Like the sun is pulling a veil over...

Signalis: A Hand Reaching Out Beyond Death Signalis, the survival horror game by rose-engine, was the second most intense experience of my life. Not, the second most intense experience with games. The second most intense experience in general. (The most intense one was realizing I am trans...

The Old Ones were alive in times so ancients costellations shifted and planets came to be since their fall. But they, as mighty as they were, have been hunted to extintion. Or have they? Explore a still untainted Galaxy, and grow quickly to prepeare for the dangers lurking around your home...

It started with your Father, Stanford Burnley, a Learned man who had interest in things in the dark corners of the world is that drew him all across the globe. Until he met your Mother. You grew up with your Father so much of what you know of her is second hand, But she drove him mad with love...

Noah finally made it past the mind detectors, bio detectors, and other portal station security measures. Most people would feel relief at being done with the whole tedious process, but not him. He felt a deep hopelessness that overshadowed his other emotions. After all, he was one step closer...

I decided to post some of "my" AI art here, I hope you will find something inspiring for your world-building, character design etc. I used some of these pictures for my own book "The Core of Rage" (mostly for environment design).

The great city of Omelas has stood for longer than the living memory of most. The four Sectors form concentric circles around the imperial Ziggurat, temple-palace to the Wise Ones, whose ineffable, irresistible will permeates the entire city. Despite their great power, wisdom and knowledge, even...

The last day of your normal life had nothing to hint it might be so monumental. You didn’t have All she has known from the day of her birth is this vast city. It is massive, sprawling across the landscape for endless miles. She knows that nearly anything can be found within. There are sprawling...

Department of Novel Dimensional Physics, May 2000 With the successful summoning undertaken by Project: Green, conclusive evidence of trans-dimensional dynamics has finally been proven enough to be funded. Modern science has no explanation for anything for now, but with sufficient focus and...

ASSAULT ON THE LABORATORY PART ONE And Deep Red saw HER gambit unfold in a tumbledown little barhouse. The Unloaded Arm was an ugly, squat establishment that saw plenty of business in the Tacoma Commune due to cheap food and relatively amicable conditions. Even at dawn, when the stars...

A rainy night with roaring thunder, a short young woman with brandy-colored short hair and yellow eyes sleeps on a metal operating table. Her name is Jenette. Her crimes are blasphemy and treason. Her punishment is up to a necromancer to decide. Her sleep is disturbed by needles injected into...

Charles Stross's Lovecraftian spy novels have become a commentary on the collapse of British state capacity. However, they are in many ways hampered by the fact that Stross doesn't quite understand how the British state works. C/W Warning: Charles Stross' novels are horror, and pretty bleak...

In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only death. A vast empire of corpses led by fanatics and madmen wage eternal holy genocide against their foes, defined as those who diverge from their doctrinal teachings and any and all species outside their own, a slowly dying shell seeking to bring...

It starts with a dream. You're at a theatre, with your friend Sayaka. No, a concert - a violin recital. Kamijou-kun's up on stage, playing Ave Maria, dressed in a full suit, tailcoat and all. There's a whole audience around you, listening silently, enraptured - but at the same time, you feel...