The Colour Out of Space (story) (1447418336)West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.Throughout the story he keeps cranking that feeling of isolation and dread as a meteor that lans on a New England farm corrupts every nearby living thing, as evinced by emissions of unEarthly colors. You’ll be struck by how much Alex Garland’s adaptation of Annihilation owes to this story. But, then again, while he had his own influences–including the great forgotten Francis Marion Crawford, plausibly the father of cosmic horror–Lovecraft despite some rather relent personal beliefs and a decidedly lowbrow publishing history is one of America’s most influential authors. This is a good place to start if you want to see why. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B+) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: H. P. Lovecraft -The H. P. Lovecraft Archive -BLOG: Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein -S. T. Joshi Blog -WIKI: H. P. Lovecraft Wiki -WIKIPEDIA: THe Colour Out of Space -S. T. Joshi Blog -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (Faded Page) -ENTRY: Data Page for “The Colour out of Space” (hplovecraft.com) -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (H. P. Lovecraft Wiki) -ENTRY: The Colour Out of Space (ISF Data Base) -INDEX: H.P. Lovecraft (Project Gutenberg) -INDEX: H. P. Lovecraft (Internet Archive) -VIDEO ARCHIVES: H. P. Lovecraft (YouTube) -AUDIO ARCHIVE: H. P. Lovecraft (LibriVox) -ESSAY: Supernatural Horror in Literature (H. P. Lovecraft, 1927, The Recluse) -AUDIO: The Color Out Of Space by H P Lovecraft (Trey Downey, 31 October 2024< The Great Stories) -AUDIO: The Colour Out of Space (LibriVox) -AUDIO: "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft (A HorrorBabble Production) -VIDEO ARCHIVES: “colour out of space” (YouTube) -ETEXT: Colour Out of Space (Project Gutenberg) -PDF: The Colour Out of Space (Repositorio) -ESSAY: The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft: Conjuring horror from the darkest deep down things. (Ed Simon,July 10, 2024, Hedgehog Review) -ESSAY: Bridges Across the Void in H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythos (Nathaniel Birzer, November 17, 2023, Online Library of Liberty) -ESSAY: The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft: Conjuring horror from the darkest deep down things. (Ed Simon, 7/10/24, Hedgehog Review) -ESSAY: “A dismal throng of vague spectres”: Reading Knowledge and Identity in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” Through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Janice Lynne Deitner Articles, Issue 13 2024, Irish Journal of American Studies) -ESSAY: Terrifying vistas of reality: H P Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror stories, was a philosopher who believed in the total insignificance of humanity (Sam Howard, 3/28/24, Aeon) -ESSAY: The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft (Benjamin Welton, The Airship) -ESSAY: H. P. Lovecraft, Prophet Of AGI: We've entered the age of the three-letter agency -- AGI, ASI, NHI -- and Lovecraft saw it coming. (JON STOKES, APR 12, 2023, Return) -ESSAY: The Tricky Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft: A little racist, sometimes a bit dull, but undeniably influential and wholly original. (BILL RYAN, OCTOBER 13, 2022, The Bulwark) -ESSAY: H.P. Lovecraft's Afterlife: He was an atheist and a nihilist, and he's more influential than ever. (JOHN J. MILLER, March 15, 2005, National Review) -ESSAY: Book vs film: The Colour Out Of Space by HP Lovecraft (Alexander Lane, 12/02/2024) -ESSAY: It’s Just a Color, but it Burns: Discussing Color Out of Space (2019) in Film and Text ( Trevor Ruth, The Baram House) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (TV Tropes) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (Super Summary) -STUDY GUIDE: The Colour Out of Space (Study.com) -ESSAY: ANNIHILATION Is the Peak of Cosmic HorrorKyle Anderson, Feb 28 2018, Nerdist) -ESSAY: Green Mountain Mysteries: A Taxonomy of Vermont Noir: Sarah Stewart Taylor considers the many fictional horrors and murders of her beloved home state (Sarah Stewart Taylor, 8/15/24, Crime Reads) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (Sean McBride) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Stuff Jeff Reads) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (James Reasoner, Rough Edges) -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Jerry Jose, 10th and Noble -REVIEW: of The Colour Out of Space (Lance Eaton, By Any Other Nerd) -REVIEW: of FILM: -FILMOGRAPHY: H. P. Lovecraft (IMDB) -FILMOGRAPHY: The Color Out of Space (2019) (IMDB) -WIKIPEDIA: Color Out of Space (film) -FILMOGRAPHY: Color Out of Space (Metacritic) -FILMOGRAPHY: Color Out of Space (Rotten Tomatoes) -ESSAY: Books‘Annihilation’ and the Adaptive Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” (Meagan Navarro, 1/21/19, Bloody Disgusting) -VIDEO ESSAY: The Annihilation Movie is Lovecraftian?! (Modern Fantastic, May 26, 2021( -ESSAY: The Lovecraftian nature of 'Annihilation' (Harris Culbertson, 4/06/23, City Live) -ESSAY: Unspeakable Cinema: The 5 Most Lovecraftian Horror Films (Fride Cinema, January 24, 2020) ESSAY: On the other side of destruction: Lovecraft, annihilation and the self (Laurence Barratt-Manning, March 2019, Overland) ESSAY: Alex Garland’s Most Underrated Movie is a Cosmic Horror Masterpiece: “It'll grow until it encompasses everything.” (Alex Welch, Feb. 20, 2024, Inverse) ESSAY: ESSAY: ESSAY: -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Matthew Pungitore, DMR Books) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (Tom Chick, Quarter of Three) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (By Matt Ruff) -FILM REVIEW: The Color Out of Space (C. T. 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