The Worms Crawl Out: Megan Chee’s “The Worms That Ate the Universe”

"Cosmic horror can be minds and dimensions beyond human ken - Cthulhu's incomprehensible moral guidance or whole ecologies swirling around us unseen. Or Azathoth, “mindless” because what it has instead is so vast and all-encompassing as to make mind-ness irrelevant. But cosmic horror can also be implacably simple - hunger, say, combined with being further up the food chain than we apex omnivores would like to believe possible. Maybe much further..."