"The Cold Hunger" is a cosmic horror tale following the Anglo-Indian Moreau family, David, Sarah, Maya, and Liam, on a remote coastal vacation. Their desire for solitude unwittingly draws them into an ancient horror: a primordial entity, "The Deep Dweller," that seeks to "incarnate" by consuming consciousness. After their cottage is besieged and their escape cut off, they discover ancient journals hinting at a ritual to re-bind the creature. A desperate attempt to perform this ritual costs them Liam, who becomes the entity's "Anchor of Life"-a living, suffering core powering its emergence. Trapped, broken, and witnessing their world transform into an alien wasteland, the surviving Moreaus are left adrift on a dead sea, forever scarred by their encounter with the insatiable Void.