Lovecraft, Cosmicism, and Cosmic Horror with Josh Heath

Mage’s premise assumes humanity and the characters matter. What if the universe doesn't care? Terry Robinson and Josh Heath, COO of High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast discuss cosmicism, the belief that there is no divine presence and that humanity is particularly insignificant. How to combine the epic and indifferent?

Show Notes

• The deeply problematic H.P. Lovecraft and his best critic, S.T. Joshi
• “The Call of Cthulhu”
• “The Dunwich Horror”
• At the Mountains of Madness
• “Herbert West–Reanimator”
• “The Colour Out of Space”
• “Dagon”
• “The Horror at Red Hook”
• The Shadow over Innsmouth
• “Pickman’s Model”
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Void
• Event Horizon
• Pandorum
• Life
• Nietzsche on nihilism
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Harlem Unbound by Chris Spivey
• Heirs to the Mountains of Madness by Josh Heath
• Mage: The Podcast Myth in Mage interview with Josh Heath
• Nephandi
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse
• The Triat of the