Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160228194417/@comment-26205772-20160315195505

As I said, invariably crapsack. I can tell you right now that Steven Universe doesn't fit the Cosmic Horror Story glove in the least. At the very, very worst, it's Lovecraft Lite. Any other shows that aren't crapsack yet still take place in a Cosmic Horror Story is likely going to be a misuse of one term or the other.

For Death World, if the main setting was to take place on a Death World, it's likely a crapsack setting. For how it works... it's got an entire trope page dedicated to it and examples galore. Should you have any specific questions pertaining to any examples (and I'd like to see the examples that claim a non-crapsack story can take place in a true Lovecraftian genre) feel free to bring them up to me, but I'm not a dictionary.