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The Colour Out of Space
H.P. Lovecraft · 1967 · 240 pages
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
'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
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John Carpenter
“It’s a very early, almost science-fiction tale. A meteor lands on this farmer’s property, and it begins to change everybody. Lovecraft wrote some really terrifying stuff. He has a lot of flaws as a writer, but he invented ethos, an inversion of Christianity: that the old ones lived on the earth before we did, were expelled, and are waiting to take over.”↗