![]() ![]() Apparently, this is longer than typical Lovecraft stories. Also, The Color Out of Space is a short story, just 30 pages long. I gravitated towards Lovecraft because Stephen King is the only other name in horror that can rival his renown. But how do you reproduce that effect in a book? The Conjuring has more than enough jump scares to induce a heart attack in the unprepared viewer. But I have always wondered how the genre translates on paper. My interest in The Color out of Space was sparked by a desire to experiment with horror in literature. The author kept his stories out of Hugo’s publication from that point onward. It was a meager sum, and Hugo added insult to injury by paying Lovecraft late. Lovecraft wrote in 1927.Ī literary legend in the genres of science fiction and horror, Lovecraft sold the short story to Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories magazine, earning $25 ($372 by present standards) in the process. ![]() The Color Out of Space is a short story that H.P. ![]()
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