Very little makes sense. As we start to understand things and adapt to the rules, they change again. We live much closer together than we ever did historically. Yet we know our neighbours much less. We have witnessed the birth of a truly global culture. A culture that fits no one. A culture that was built by Social Media’s algorithms, much more than by people. Let alone individuals, like you or me. We have more knowledge, more science, more technology, and somehow, our governments are more stuck. No one is seriously considering a new Bill of Rights for the 21st century, or a new Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. — Cosmic Horror as a genre largely depicts how this all feels from the inside. As ordinary people, we are powerless in the face of forces beyond our understanding. Cosmic Horror also commonly features the idea that bad things can happen to us without us noticing, and the angst that comes from it. The genre often features Eldritch creatures. These are creatures that live beyond humans’ understanding. But whilst humans can’t understand or influence them, they can affect humans. Sometimes, they may even forcefully alter people’s thoughts and actions. — As humans, we have always been confronted with the Eldritch. The world was never our home, it was never designed to be legible or pleasant to us. We come to life screaming and crying, without the intellectual means to understand why we got ejected from a nice place into a deeply inhospitable, cold and uncaring universe. Many stories echo this. From Hesiod’s Golden Age to the Garden of Eden, we started in a state of primordial ease, where humans lived in a world that was good for them. But something happened, and we landed on Earth, with all of its suffering and hardships. Even our lives start that way. We all have been children. As children, we had very little agency. Our fates were in the hands of adults, entities much more powerful than we are. Although adults were uncannily similar