- NovemberMike
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One thing that seems to fit oddly well into the Cosmic Horror genre is "The Hitchhiker's Guide" series. It's basically a Cosmic Horror Comedy. The Earth is destroyed by an uncaring force, Knowledge of the scope of the universe causes insanity and the great tragedy where the protagonist loses his love happens for no real reason. It seems like it tends to hit this note much more heavily in the last book, which is probably the reason that people enjoyed it less.
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- NovemberMike
- Dec 28, 2008
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It's interesting to read The Hitchhiker's Guide novels after reading a bunch of this stuff. It's basically the Tucker and Dale of the cosmic horror world. The same sense of insignificance, the same sense of overwhelming helplessness and the same kinds of random bad things happening. It's much less serious but it comes at it from a sense of laughing at misery more than anything else.
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