At The Mountain of Madness written in 1931 is one of H.P Lovecraft’s most famous stories. The scholarly protagonist(s) doomed to an untimely end, an uncanny creature out to kill, and a general sense of terror that when seeking knowledge in the world, all you learn is that you will not survive. One of the earliest examples of a Lovecraftian film, The Trollenberg Terror (1958), includes all the telltale tropes of a weird story.
Body horror and scientific exploration gone awry are staples of Lovecraftian movies pictured above is a still from the 1985 film Re-Animator.
Cosmic horror showcases our small role in the vast cosmos and explores plots around the dangers of scientific discovery, insanity, body horror, psychedelic/weird monsters, and existence itself as the source of horror. Lovecraft is considered the inventor of cosmic horror, a genre of horror storytelling that focuses on cosmic and existential dread.
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