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The colour out of space

by Howard Phillips Lovecraft & J. M. de Aragon (Illustrator)

  • First published: Date unknown
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

"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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “extraterrestrial”. Retained metadata contains “extraterrestrial” in the subject metadata, “Extraterrestrial beings” in the subject metadata, and “Human-alien encounters” in the subject metadata.

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2022-06-04Project GutenbergEnglishPublic domain (USA)

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