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The Colour out of Space
In a remote New England valley, a meteorite crashes onto the Gardner farm, bringing a presence that defies all comprehension. Crops wither, livestock decay, and the land itself becomes sickly and twisted. The family begins a descent into madness while a strange, otherworldly light glimmers from the well — a color unfathomably alien and impossible to describe.
As the creeping corruption spreads through earth, water, and mind, the full scale of the horror becomes apparent, a force beyond human understanding and control. Lovecraft’s tale of cosmic indifference paints a chilling vision of a universe where human understanding is puny and the unknown can obliterate all in its path.
A haunting story of unseen terror, environmental devastation, and the unknowable, The Colour Out of Space remains one of Lovecraft’s most unsettling explorations of cosmic horror.
As the creeping corruption spreads through earth, water, and mind, the full scale of the horror becomes apparent, a force beyond human understanding and control. Lovecraft’s tale of cosmic indifference paints a chilling vision of a universe where human understanding is puny and the unknown can obliterate all in its path.
A haunting story of unseen terror, environmental devastation, and the unknowable, The Colour Out of Space remains one of Lovecraft’s most unsettling explorations of cosmic horror.
37 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 26, 2025
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H.P. Lovecraft
6,208 books19.4k followersHoward Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
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