# 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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: J. M. de Aragon
- Subjects: Science fiction; Horror tales; Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction; Human-alien encounters -- Fiction; Farmers -- Fiction; Families -- Fiction; Meteorites -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Colour Out of Space](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/18014) by H. P. Lovecraft (1 h 22 min, English)

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