The Colour Out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

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A meteorite falls on a New England farm and brings a colour with no name in any earthly spectrum. As the land and the family who tend it begin to wither in ways no doctor or scientist can explain, Lovecraft delivers what he himself called his best story.

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