The Prospect of Tragic Heroism in the Cosmic Scheme
Lovecraftian horror and the vindication of humanist pride
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9 min readMay 6, 2024
In 1882, in The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche said that God is dead. Just a few decades later, in 1926, after he’d published various other weird tales, HP Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu,” in which he resurrected the gods as symbols of nature’s catastrophic inhumanity.
