The Colour Out of Space

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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 BarkerOne of the most influential popular authors of the 20th century—Independent

It casts a spell . . . fiction like Lovecraft’s can be brutally hypnotic—New York Review of BooksH.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. He was self-educated and lived in his birthplace all his life, working 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.GB