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The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror (New York Review Books Classics)
The Colour Out of Space Tales of Cosmic Horror - New York Review Books Classics Author:H.P. Lovecraft "The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature wh... more »ich are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." —H. P. Lovecraft
This new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."