The colour out of space
- First published
- 1967
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"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.
- Science fiction
- Horror tales
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Human-alien encounters
- Farmers
- Families
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #68236. The colour out of space on Wikipedia.
