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A staple of Cosmic Horror Story and of Mind Screw artworks. Elder Gods, Old Ones, and other horrors tend to bend the laws of physics to suit them. Why make a triangle where the angles add up to 180 degrees, when you can make one where they add up to 200 degrees in a flat space and get some extra room? Even the very body of a particularly squamous thing may exhibit this, though more often it shows up in architecture as physically-impossible buildings—occasionally sentient themselves. Compare with Bizarrchitecture and Sinister Geometry. Examples of Alien Geometries include:

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