cosmic horror · body horror · infected · sentient planets · dark matter · grotesque · space setting · eldritch · decay · malevolent
A palpable dread saturates the void. Mercury is shattered on the floor, his ribcage pried open, the wet glisten of his exposed heart pulsating weakly. Venus lies contorted, her head hanging by a thread of flesh. Mars is manacled to an ornate piano, his eyes squeezed shut as his fingers coax a hopeless, mournful tune from its keys. Neptune towers, a puppet of something else—his eyes are pits of black ink centered by piercing white pupils. Saturn and Jupiter, the elder brothers, watch from a distance, their terror a silent scream as they try to shield the smaller, rocky worlds. Above it all, the Sun observes. A single, desperate warning cuts through the silence: do not look into the Sun's eye. That glance is the infection, the catalyst that will twist you into a monster like the rest. Cho…