Modern horror, such as cosmic horror and splatterpunk, tends to be less melodramatic and more explicit.

Such is the tale; flat, stilted, and altogther devoid of the true cosmic horror which makes weird literature.

Of these only one, dealing with a glimpse of Pan and his aura of fright, may be said to hold the true element of cosmic horror.

With every moment my feeling of elusive cosmic horror increased, till at length I was in a virtual delirium of longing for the end of the drive.

Of the extent of the cosmic horrors unfolded by that raucous voice I cannot even hint.

An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe.

Planetary romance blends with "cosmic horror" as the characters switch from swashbuckling he-men to helpless bundles of gibbering terror.

Was I tottering on the brink of cosmic horrors beyond man's power to bear?

The Hyperborean cycle mixes cosmic horror with an Iron Age setting.

But even as I shook with the cosmic horror of the thing, I drew a feathered shaft to my ear and arched it singing on its way.