Category: cosmic horror

• Valdis Damien van Dyne

  Pierce Mostyn not only has Cthulhu to think about, he also has Valdis Damien van Dyne. In case you don’t know, Pierce Mostyn is the hero in my Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigations series. He is the G-Man assigned to fight the Ultimate Evil. Ultimate evil from our point of view, that is. But along the…

  cwhawes

  April 6, 2023

  cosmic horror, Diabolical Mastermind

  cosmic horror, Cthulhu Mythos, monsters, Nietzsche, Pierce Mostyn, Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigations, Ultimate evil, Valdis Damien Van Dyne, vampires, zuvembies

• Terror of the Gut

  Bantam paperback foldout cover. Artist unknown. For a long time now I’ve held the view that between HP Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, it was Howard who was the consistently better writer. The operative word being “consistently”. At his very, very best, HPL probably outshines REH — but not by much. And it may be…

  cwhawes

  March 9, 2023

  cosmic horror, horror of the mind, visceral horror

  cosmic horror, horror of the mind, horror style, terror of the gut, terror of the mind, visceral horror

• Cosmic Horror Without Lovecraft?

  Cosmic Horror without Lovecraft. Hm. Yet that is what someone on Twitter proposed in response to my previous post. So I asked myself how about sword and sorcery without Robert E Howard? Or Sword and Planet without Edgar Rice Burroughs? Nah. Not possible. When a writer is responsible for creating or defining a genre or…

  cwhawes

  February 20, 2023

  cosmic horror, Philosophy of Horror

  cosmic horror, Cthulhu Mythos, existentialism, fear, Meaning of Life