H. P. Lovecraft's body of cosmic horror has a certain prestige to it. One pictures the slow, impossible march of something larger than life as it trudges through the sea. The reality beyond human understanding becomes the haunting domain of dawning horrors, capable of incalculable damage, yet strictly disinterested in human affairs. It seems high-minded next to modern blood and gore. Stuart Gordon found the revolting, gory, grotesque fun in Lovecraft in his From Beyond.