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Illusions: Colors Out of Space - Short Story by H.P.Lovecraft

Category: Science & Technology
(Image credit: Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Ritsumeikan University) By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - ScientificAmerican.com This is the 11th article in the Mind Matters Series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions.

FROM THE SHORT STORY:"...It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes."

Science-fiction author H. P. Lovecraft considered The Colour Out of Space his best story. Written in 1927, in this classic tale of cosmic horror, a small farming community faces unspeakable evil from the outer reaches of the universe. The extraterrestrial villain is not a face-hugging or chest-bursting alien but something far more terrifying: a weird color.

Slowly but surely the otherworldly color mutates and destroys crops, insects, wild animals and livestock. It impregnates the land and the water. The unfortunate farmers who encounter the bizarre hue fall prey to insanity and untimely death.

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