Lovecraft

dread

Intense anticipatory fear

• terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
• fearEmotional response to threat
• madnessMental derangement or folly

sanity · forbidden knowledge · abomination · unspeakable · monstrosity · tentacles · decadence · degeneration · atavism · hysteria

Cthulhu

Fictional tentacled cosmic deity

• NecronomiconFictional book of forbidden knowledge
• ArkhamFictional psychiatric institution

Providence

God's protective care personified

• pulpSoft wet mass
• weird fictionGenre of atmospheric unknowable dread
• writerCreator of texts

novelist · prose · short stories · ghostwriter · sonnets · antiquarian · prolific · correspondence · New England · revision

antiquarian

Scholar of old artifacts

• New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
• colonialOf occupied territories
• decayedBroken down organically

ancestral · haunted · gambrel · cemetery · crypt · manuscript · portrait · hereditary · ancestral curse · old families

indifference

Lack of interest

• vastnessState of being immense
• insignificanceLack of consequence or weight
• infinityUnlimited extent or quantity

void · unknown · incomprehensible · alien · outer space · stars · abyss · timelessness · nihilism · materialism

• horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
• speculative fictionsci-fi, science fiction, dystopia, fantasy, futurism
• occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, black magic, tarot
• Cult FilmsEraserhead, The Room, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Army of Darkness
• pessimismpessimism, nihilism, fatalism, hopelessness, despair
• sea monstersleviathan, giant squid, sea serpent, sea monster, sea beast