Name: The Colour Out of Space
ISBN: 9780141992938

H. P. Lovecraft

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum. 'Evil, in Lovecraft, is universal, pervasive' Michael Chabon 'His prescience and novelty seem more and more remarkable ... shows a deeply modern horror at the universe' Guardian 'A unique and visionary world of wonder, terror and delirium' Clive Barker

The Colour Out of Space

H P Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terrors unthinkable and strange: a crash-landing meteorite, the wretched inhabitant of an ancient castle and a grave-robber's curse.

Nora 

Loved the Colour Out of Space short story! We covered the recent film adaptation in our book club podcast.

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882. “The Color Out of Space” is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s best-loved and most critically acclaimed stories. According to the author, it was also his personal favorite. It has been adapted twice for film; first in 1967 and later in 1987. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

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The Colour Out Of Space

Scott Wilks

Rating All 19 Lovecraft Stories Within the Necronomicon (Audible Audio Book) ~ Part 9 - The Color Out of Space.

Wow. This book is fantastic! I am 9 novels/novellas into reading the most revered of Lovecraft's works and this one, personally, is my favourite of the bunch.

Lovecraft perfectly combines the familiarity of our world with dimensions that mortal minds can not comprehend; perfectly blurring the lines between reality and unreality. This paints a stark, almost depressing, image that creates an uncanny uneasiness for the reader.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone trying to get into the Lovecraftian universe!

Jade Flynn

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh'

The Colour Out of Space - 4/5
The Outsider - 4.5/5
The Hound - 3/5 


THE WRITING. THE FRIKKIN' WRITING. OH MY GOSH. That is all.

Angie 

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H.P. Lovecraft

"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life.

The Colour Out of Space

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