The colour out of space by H. P. Lovecraft
"The colour out of space" by H. P. Lovecraft is a science fiction/horror short story written in March 1927. A surveyor investigates a cursed area called the "blasted heath" near Arkham, Massachusetts, uncovering the tale of a mysterious meteorite that crashed decades earlier. The impact unleashed something alien and incomprehensible that poisoned the land, corrupted all living things, and drove a farming family to madness and death. Something unnatural still lingers in
the contaminated soil. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 |
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| Illustrator | Aragon, J. M. de |
| Title | The colour out of space |
| Original Publication | United States: Experimenter Publishing Company,1927. |
| Series Title | Produced from Amazing Stories September 1927 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction |
| Subject | Human-alien encounters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Farmers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Families -- Fiction |
| Subject | Meteorites -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 68236 |
| Release Date | Jun 4, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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