The colour out of space

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The colour out of space

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

EN·~1 hours·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total

Part 1

31:19

Part 2

31:08

Part 3

9:47

Description

In a remote corner of New England, where ancient hills loom over untamed woods, a strange scar of grey ash spreads across a valley. The land, once farmed by generations of settlers, now lies abandoned, its cottages crumbling and its fields choked by an unsettling silence. Locals whisper that the area is cursed, that an unseen presence has twisted the very soil and sky, leaving only a bleak, colorless expanse that seems to devour light itself.

When a surveyor is sent to assess the region for a new reservoir, he discovers more than a simple geological oddity. The strange, otherworldly hue that seeps from the blasted heath seeps into the water, the plants, and even the minds of those who linger nearby, creating an atmosphere of growing unease and inexplicable phenomena. As the investigator delves deeper, the boundary between the natural world and something far beyond begins to blur, hinting at a horror that defies ordinary understanding.

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Language

en

Duration

~1 hours (69K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1927.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2022-06-04

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

1890–1937

A master of cosmic horror, this American writer turned fear of the unknown into some of the most influential weird fiction ever written. His stories introduced readers to ancient beings, fragile sanity, and a universe far larger—and colder—than humanity would like to believe.

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