Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Cosmic horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that focuses on the unknown. It is also known as space horror, deep space horror, and interstellar terror. Cosmic horror stories typically involve dangers that are either incomprehensible to human minds or so alien as to be utterly indescribable. Cosmic horrors can include anything from Lovecraftian monsters to Stephen King's It. The scary thing is that you don’t need terror grip tales to scare you because the real thing is more terrifying than any story envisioned from the mind of a human. There are 10 terrifying scary facts about space.
0:00 intro
0:30 lost bodies of astronauts
1:14 rogue supermassive black holes
2:06 sudden decompression
3:26 drowning in your space suit
4:07 space molting
5:00 no stars in the future
5:25 space destroys your dna
6:11 smell of space
6:29 water burns in space
6:57 there's not enough fuel on earth to escape
Cosmic horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that focuses on the unknown. It is also known as space horror, deep space horror, and interstellar terror. Cosmic horror stories typically involve dangers that are either incomprehensible to human minds or so alien as to be utterly indescribable. Cosmic horrors can include anything from Lovecraftian monsters to Stephen King's It. The scary thing is that you don’t need terror grip tales to scare you because the real thing is more terrifying than any story envisioned from the mind of a human. There are 10 terrifying scary facts about space.
0:00 intro
0:30 lost bodies of astronauts
1:14 rogue supermassive black holes
2:06 sudden decompression
3:26 drowning in your space suit
4:07 space molting
5:00 no stars in the future
5:25 space destroys your dna
6:11 smell of space
6:29 water burns in space
6:57 there's not enough fuel on earth to escape
