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A Colder War, alien god, ancient artifact, call of cthulhu, dunwich horror, Liminal States, Lovecraft pits, Lovecraftian physics, The Mist
A trope that seems to pop up occasionally in stories that I read is something I’ve begun calling “The Pit of Lovecraft”. The theme seems fairly standardized: people discover some sort of unspeakably alien and utterly ancient artifact, attempt to study and/or weaponize it, and then through some catastrophic failure, unleash their research on the world. Once unleashed, the world is irreversibly altered and unfit for human existence. I call it “The Pit of Lovecraft” because the objects are contained underground or within a pit, and the results are usually Lovecraftian in nature.