Written in the first-person perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston, "The Colour Out of Space" tells the story of the narrator's attempts to uncover the secrets behind a shunned place referred to by the locals of Arkham as the "blasted heath". It was adapted into feature film versions in 1965, 1987, and 2019. First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, "The Color Out of Space" became one of Lovecraft's most popular works and remained his personal favorite short story. Seeking to create a form of life that was truly alien, he drew his inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources. Lovecraft began writing "The Colour Out of Space" immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay " Supernatural Horror in Literature". The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, draining the life force from anything living nearby vegetation grows large, but tasteless, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts.
" The Colour Out of Space" is a short story written by American horror author H.
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