Dr. Satvik Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at GITAM University, Hyderabad. He holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. His research focuses on the Lovecraftian aesthetics of cosmic horror fiction. Specifically, he investigates the essence of existential horror latent in non-human confrontations such as cosmic horror and weird fiction. He is also interested in exploring the intersection of literature and architecture across supernatural narratives.