They Bloom at Night by Trang Tanh Tran and the Sworn Soldier series by T. Kingfisher (the first of which is a retelling of the fall of the house of Usher) are similar types of body horror with more classical elements. However, in kind of the broader scope/more consequential impact of cosmic horror, Tran’s “elder god” engendering the conflict is climate change. For even more graphic body horror, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White is gothic Spiritualism horror. (White’s other books I think are Southern gothic horror, but I have not read them.)
Debatably horror (I consider it horror through Stockholm syndrome and claustrophobia), but if you want something low on plot but with an impossibly ever increasing dread with a small cast: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (I’m told her book Starving Saints which is on my TBR/Library hold list is medieval psychedellic horror).
Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (a favorite of mine), Johanna van Veen’s Blood on her Tongue (I actually like her My Darling Dreadful Thing book better which is 1920s gothic ghost/Spiritualism horror), and Kat Dunn’s Hungerstone are all gothic vampire horror, Kostova’s being more historically-minded and based on the prompt, “What if Dracula were real and actually Vlad the Impaler?” (do not read if you want actual Dracula and not his oppressive cult of personality to feature heavily in the story). Kostova’s book is slow paced but the others in this category are pretty snappy.
Robert Jackson Bennet’s Shadow of the Leviathan series is more of a mystery set on the backdrop of a world where Lovecraftian creatures with their supernatural powers and stochastic disregard for humanity has resulted in a whole society organized to fight them. Similarly Tasha Suri’s the Burning Kingdom Trilogy is not horror, but does have the “ominous threat of vengeance from an elusive and arcane elder god” vibe I associate with cosmic horror.
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[Southern Reach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Reach_Series)
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
I’m not sure I have any cosmic horror, but:
They Bloom at Night by Trang Tanh Tran and the Sworn Soldier series by T. Kingfisher (the first of which is a retelling of the fall of the house of Usher) are similar types of body horror with more classical elements. However, in kind of the broader scope/more consequential impact of cosmic horror, Tran’s “elder god” engendering the conflict is climate change. For even more graphic body horror, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White is gothic Spiritualism horror. (White’s other books I think are Southern gothic horror, but I have not read them.)
Debatably horror (I consider it horror through Stockholm syndrome and claustrophobia), but if you want something low on plot but with an impossibly ever increasing dread with a small cast: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (I’m told her book Starving Saints which is on my TBR/Library hold list is medieval psychedellic horror).
Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (a favorite of mine), Johanna van Veen’s Blood on her Tongue (I actually like her My Darling Dreadful Thing book better which is 1920s gothic ghost/Spiritualism horror), and Kat Dunn’s Hungerstone are all gothic vampire horror, Kostova’s being more historically-minded and based on the prompt, “What if Dracula were real and actually Vlad the Impaler?” (do not read if you want actual Dracula and not his oppressive cult of personality to feature heavily in the story). Kostova’s book is slow paced but the others in this category are pretty snappy.
Robert Jackson Bennet’s Shadow of the Leviathan series is more of a mystery set on the backdrop of a world where Lovecraftian creatures with their supernatural powers and stochastic disregard for humanity has resulted in a whole society organized to fight them. Similarly Tasha Suri’s the Burning Kingdom Trilogy is not horror, but does have the “ominous threat of vengeance from an elusive and arcane elder god” vibe I associate with cosmic horror.