At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, published in 1936, examines how alone humans are in the cosmos. By rejecting anthropocentrism as it is understood in the West, Lovecraft develops a narrative that questions human identity on both a philosophical and a spiritual level. Lovecraft subverts the traditional literary devices from the 19th century to show how isolated the human spirit is in the cosmos. The book serves as the apex of his so-called "cosmic terror."
American author H.P. Lovecraft was well-known, and Edgar Allan Poe had a significant impact on his writing. Lovecraft is the one who completely studies the idea of science fiction horror, despite the fact that the latter explores novel forms of dread and intrigue storytelling. "A nihilistic vision of the universe that, if adopted, threatens to unravel human epistemology as it is currently understood," according to Lovecraft, characterises cosmic horror. p. 531) (McWilliam, 2015). In the author's pessimistic view of the world, science is not only useless but also dangerous for humankind's future because it has the potential to dramatically underline our utter irrelevance. Lovecraftian horror, according to Miéville (2005, p. xiii), "lies in our acknowledging that fact" because it consists of the realisation of our insignificance.
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