(…)Cosmic horror generally revolves around humanity’s contact with an Eldritch Abomination: a being so incomprehensible that merely laying eyes on it is enough to drive a person to the brink of insanity. In many cases, those who have seen the creature are the lucky ones, because they’ve already cracked. The folks who haven’t met it yet must live in constant fear of first contact, which lends cosmic horror stories a delicious ramp of terror that lies in wait. (…)

books:

• The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher
• Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria
• Beneath by Kristi DeMeester
• Blindsight by Peter Watts
• Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
• The Croning by Laird Barron