I found out about this one from horror blogger Stacie Ponder and it is one of my favorites. Arletty, a young woman, comes to an isolated California town looking for her father, who has gone missing. The town's past is coming back in strange and unsettling ways. Arletty teams up with a trio of other outsiders to try and find out what is happening and where Arletty's father is. If you want something that *feels* like Innsmouth in the 1970s, this is it. There are some jump scares, but most of the movie is mood. It is designed to unsettle rather than to scare. Is it cosmic horror? Maybe. It is definitely Lovecraftian, and it ends with a pretty strong implication that the world as we know it is coming to a close. Right now, it is available free (with ads) on Tubi. It pops up on Shudder frequently, if you subscribe.

Hello friends, hopefully you are all doing well today! I wanted to include this new discussion format for us and see if you liked it. The goal here is just to have some fun thinking about real things that have happened or are happening and what the causes could have been. Think old legends and lore, mysteries of the universe etc. I’ve thought about this dancing plague more than a few times over the years. I wonder if it’s more legend than fact, but certainly seems very cosmic horror like as a group of people driven to madness. Have you heard of it? What do you think caused it? Share your knowledge!

For me it was sitting around a table with my friends about 25 years ago. My buddy had tried Dungeons and Dragons and found an even more interesting game to play - The Call of Cthulhu. After finishing our first round that evening I was so fascinated I asked what it was all about. Another friend had a copy of Rats in the Walls and read it to us. I was so creeped out that when my mom came to pick me up the next day, we went to the bookstore and I immediately went and picked up a few different books. Good times. 😂 How’d you first discover the works of HP Lovecraft?

Hello everyone! I was just wondering what songs/albums involving cosmic horror y’all enjoy listening to. Pictured is an assortment of records in my collection that either 1) serve as the OST to a CH or CH-adjacent film, 2) feature CH visual aesthetics, or 3) contain lyrics that delve into CH themes. I think another (unpictured) record that fits the bill is Jim Sullivan’s “U.F.O” (1969), which is a folk rock album that frequently references mysterious, disappearing towns and extraterrestrial visitors. “U.F.O.” is made all the stranger by the fact that Sullivan disappeared permanently one night in the New Mexican desert, without leaving behind so much as a trace.