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@pensword, @phoenix, @sam-m, So there’s an entire website devoted to H.P. Lovecraft; since most if not all his works are old enough to be in the public domain, his stuff is available for free reading. He is kind of the progenitor of cosmic horror, so if you’re into writing about terrors which transcend human comprehension and absolutely dwarf our mortal existence, he might be worth a look at. Bear in mind, Lovecraft was an incorrigible atheist during his life until his death, and his conception of deity in his works was that of terrible, alien beings in an uncaring universe, indicative of his view of God should he theoretically have been disposed to say there was a God. I find his views ironic – the deities which he imagines seem to reflect the powers and principalities of this material world from which God has rescued us in faith. Anyways, I’ll leave it there, as this is rapidly turning into an essay that I am not prepared to write!

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dh.aspx