Lovecraft’s real horror is the madness monsters induce, not the monsters themselves

Evidence

(This a real Lovecraftian touch, since the dread fate that haunts Lovecraft’s characters is not of being consumed by the polytendrilled abominations but by the schizophrenia that their appearance often engenders.) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1110

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the work on paranoia and madness in paranoid fiction; also resonates with the theme of un-reason in the Foucault material read elsewhere. — connects to: Cosmic horror offers no relief between determinism and chaos — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 290; Puppet horror stems from consciousness revealing cosmic uselessness, not malice — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 282

Broader Connections

• Puppet horror stems from consciousness revealing cosmic uselessness, not malice #qualifies (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 282
• Cosmic horror offers no relief between determinism and chaos #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 290