1927 Short Stories
The Colour Out of Space, Pickman's Model, Hills Like White Elephants, the Horror at Red Hook, Miss Sophia's Diary
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Colour Out of Space, Pickman's Model, Hills Like White Elephants, the Horror at Red Hook, Miss Sophia's Diary, the Killers, the Adventure of the Veiled Lodger, the Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, Pig-Hoo-O-O-O-Ey, the Disintegration Machine, Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories, the Undefeated, the New Dress, the Stolen Body, the Bishop's Move, the Tuesday Night Club, a Vision of Judgment, History of the Necronomicon. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "The Colour Out of Space" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in March 1927 and initially published in Amazing Stories in September 1927, it became one of his most anthologized works. "The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned 5-acre (20,000 m) farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life. At the center of the farmstead is an old well. The site fills him with an unnatural sense of dread, and he hurries past it. When he returns to Arkham, the surveyor asks around for information regarding the waste. He learns of an elderly hermit, Ammi Pierce, and asks him about the "blasted heath." The hermit tells him a horrific tale. In the early 1880s, the farm had been productive, run by a Nahum Gardner and his family. Then, one afternoon in June 1882, a large meteorite crashed into the farm, beside the well. It was metallic and contained a substance of an indescribable color that proved toxic. While scientists were never able to tell what (or who) t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=49835
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