Genre Guide – Cosmic Horror

Four women — a biologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and an anthropologist — set out on a scientific expedition to Area X, a quarantined zone that defies all attempts to map its terrain or understand its nature. Eleven previous missions have failed; is the twelfth time the charm, or will these intrepid explorers join their predecessors as casualties of Area X?

When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of Dutchman’s Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Ashokan Reservoir.

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, are in a rut—until Blanca finds the enigmatic Smoke in a drug den, holding pages of “The King in Yellow.” Read too much and madness follows; read just a little and it’s a rush. Carmen is drawn into a game of lust at the edge of a nightmare.

The King in Yellow: a play that brings madness to all who read it. Irresistible and insidious, it lures the reader with its innocence and dooms them with its corruption. In a series of interlinked stories, Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction shows the creeping spread of the play’s macabre touch.

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

When a Low-Probability Event occurs, killing 8 million people in a single day of seemingly unrelated, bizarre freak accidents, statistician Vera and Special Agent Layne investigate a suspiciously lucky casino that might be connected to the improbable disaster.

An extensively annotated anthology of twenty-two of the horror master’s best writings also examines Lovecraft’s rise and accomplishments against a backdrop of the pulp fiction era while evaluating his influence on literature.

Follows a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century.

A midwife’s apprentice in 17th-century London, where unnatural births are believed to be the Devil’s work, Sarah is hired by the wealthy Lady Wren to see her through her pregnancy, becoming caught in a web of obsession, magic and intrigue created by those who want to use her power for themselves.

From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre.

A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno.

After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.