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    Cover of The colour out of space

    The colour out of space

    H.P. Lovecraft · 1967

    Design & UX
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    2recommend
    7mentions
    7people
    2016–2026years
    29% recommend71% neutral

    Mentions per year

    201620182020202220242026

    What Hacker News says

    1. saberienceSep 2023
      I thought Annihilation is more of a re-thinking of HP Lovecrafts story "The Colour out of Space". You should totally read it, it's fantastically creepy and clearly influenced the film.
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    2. tcbascheDec 2019
      Some highlights of the year:

      Children of Time - (Tchaikovsky)

      Steve Jobs (Isaacson) - as an aside, I've started reading his daughters (Lisa) book Small Fry

      The Colour out of Space - (Lovecraft)

      iWoz (Wozniak)

      The Design of Everyday Things (Norman)

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    3. ameliaquiningAug 2026
      I thought of "The Colour Out of Space".
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    4. QemApr 2025
      This reminds me of horror fiction like Lovecraft's Color Out of Space[1] and Neill Blomkamp's short Zygote (2017)[2][3]

      [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space

      [2] https://www.imdb.com/pt/title/tt7078780/

      [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWB-MVJ4sQ

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    5. edgarvaldesAug 2019
      One of those books[1] that are really hard to translate to another medium. The movie tried, but somehow the book can give you a better approximation about the sense of smell.

      [1] Another one is the upcoming adaptation of The Colour Out of Space

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    6. xenophonfApr 2016
      I thought he was referring to "A Colder War," which to me replicates perfectly the cold dread I felt when reading Lovecraft's stories about the Colour out of Space, Irem of the Pillars, et al---more so than any of the works by Lovecraft's other fans (including Derleth, whose work I didn't enjoy).
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