Caution: Spoilers to follow for Gags the Clown (2019), which you can currently watch on Amazon Prime. When you get right down to it, the crux of much of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror is that his fiction’s conception of the universe is not an anthropocentric one. Humankind does not hold some exalted place in the cosmos. … Continue reading Black Balloons: Cosmic Nihilism in Gags the Clown (2019)