Tag: fear

• 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

• FEAR ~ My First Day of Teaching

  

  What is fear? What does it mean to be brave, to show courage? Where is the actual courage and bravery if one is not afraid? According to a famous John Wayne quote, “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”  My favorite quote on this subject is from Eddie Rickenbacker (WW-1, Ace Pilot) “Courage…

  Dr. Thomas Davison, author

  January 14, 2023

  The Craft

  fear, unknown

• Fear Is Always With Us

  A week and a half ago, Jack Tyler opened our discussion by talking about fear. The fear we choose to enjoy. In this post, I’d like to personalize Jack’s post: the fear I choose. In his classic essay, Supernatural Horror In Literature, HP Lovecraft noted that “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,…

  cwhawes

  November 25, 2022

  Philosophy of Horror

  cosmic horror, cryptids, fear, ghost story, occult detectives, psychological horror