Abstract
Abstract This article explores the writing of H. P. Lovecraft through portrayals of the monstrous and cosmic horror. Both integral facets of his mythos are connected to his world-view, and then located in terms of wider popular culture and contemporary Gothic scholarship. Lovecraft’s conceptualizations of monstrosity and cosmic horror are seen to be employed in such a way that subverts more conventional forms of storytelling: where many popular culture texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries adhere to a mode of storytelling that contains heroism for the protagonist, this is not the case in Lovecraft’s work. Typically phenomena – in the form of cosmic horror and monstrosity – are the focus of the story; yet these manifestations act to form a nexus of expression and critique by utilizing ontological metaphors steeped in meaning.
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