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The Colour Out of Space
H. P. Lovecraft

The Colour Out of Space

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Summary

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum.

'Evil, in Lovecraft, is universal, pervasive' Michael Chabon

'His prescience and novelty seem more and more remarkable ... shows a deeply modern horror at the universe' Guardian

'A unique and visionary world of wonder, terror and delirium' Clive Barker

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About the author

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. Self-educated, he worked as a freelance writer, journalist and ghostwriter. His best work - including some sixty or so short stories - was published from 1923 onwards in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. He died in 1937, in poverty and virtually unknown; today he is recognized as one of the great masters of supernatural fiction.
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