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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.80 — 306,712 ratings — published 2014
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,856 ratings — published 2016
The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.82 — 35,396 ratings — published 2016
The Croning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,428 ratings — published 2012
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.54 — 30,797 ratings — published 1895
This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.69 — 39,715 ratings — published 2021
The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,319 ratings — published 2020
The Hollow Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.78 — 55,762 ratings — published 2020
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.01 — 119,342 ratings — published 1928
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,702 ratings — published 1907
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.78 — 64,722 ratings — published 1936
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.55 — 107,204 ratings — published 2014
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.67 — 81,182 ratings — published 2014
Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,931 ratings — published 2017
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.01 — 49,619 ratings — published 2016
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.69 — 131,372 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow over Innsmouth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,151 ratings — published 1936
The Immaculate Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.92 — 778 ratings — published 2018
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,170 ratings — published 1908
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,752 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,513 ratings — published 1980
Sister, Maiden, Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.54 — 8,258 ratings — published 2023
The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,673 ratings — published 2023
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.45 — 89,206 ratings — published 1998
Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.09 — 341,645 ratings — published 2022
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.09 — 202,015 ratings — published 2000
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.41 — 42,783 ratings — published 2015
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,430 ratings — published 2019
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.08 — 499,111 ratings — published 2006
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.08 — 208,222 ratings — published 2017
Annihilation Omnibus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cosmic)
avg rating 4.06 — 828 ratings — published 2007
Sour Candy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.59 — 25,242 ratings — published 2015
Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.59 — 11,430 ratings — published 2024
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,792 ratings — published 1890
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.49 — 145,779 ratings — published 2023
Heavy Oceans (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.97 — 390 ratings — published 2023
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,603 ratings — published 2000
She Walks in Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.75 — 968 ratings — published 2015
The Mind Parasites: The Supernatural Metaphysical Cult Thriller (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,667 ratings — published 1967
Dead Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,353 ratings — published 2022
Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.81 — 141,777 ratings — published 2014
The Dunwich Horror (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 15,581 ratings — published
American Elsewhere (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 8,411 ratings — published 2013
Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,657 ratings — published 2017
Original Sin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.31 — 2,517 ratings — published 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: Guardians Disassembled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,832 ratings — published 2014
Legendary Star-Lord, Vol. 3: First Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cosmic)
avg rating 3.38 — 286 ratings — published 2016
“Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.”
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“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."
What monsters may they be?"
Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...
There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?”
― Two on a Tower
What monsters may they be?"
Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...
There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?”
― Two on a Tower
