eldritch horrors
Unknowable alien terrors
Eldritch horrors are supernatural beings of incomprehensible, cosmic terror—entities so alien and vast that encountering them drives humans to madness.
The phrase derives from H.P.
Lovecraft's fiction, where tentacled gods and beings from beyond space dwarf human significance.
Now used broadly for any deeply unsettling, otherworldly menace: The game pits players against eldritch horrors from the void.
Often playfully exaggerated: Monday meetings are the true eldritch horror.
- tentaclesFlexible grasping appendages
- madnessMental derangement or folly
- sanity lossDecline in mental stability
- creeping dreadSlowly intensifying fearful anticipation
- NecronomiconFictional book of forbidden knowledge
Cthulhu · unknowable · gibbering · dread · forbidden knowledge · shadowy figures · cyclopean · ichor · squamous · arcane rituals · terror · non-Euclidean · paranoia · void · nihilism · abomination · existential crisis · ancient
- LovecraftianCthulhu, Necronomicon, Arkham, Call of Cthulhu, Re-Animator
eldritch horrorsbarnyard animals
eldritch horrorsguardian angels
Protective spirits assigned to individuals
divine protectors · heavenly hosts · celestial beings · angels of mercy · fairy godmothers
eldritch horrorsnatural laws
Unchanging rules of nature
Euclidean geometry · scientific principles · common sense · lucid dreams