#Colour out of space

[vintagerpg]

The 1978 Jove/HBJ paperback The Colour Out of Space, one of two Lovecraft collections the publisher licensed from Arkham House’s 1963 collections. Hot damn, look at that cover painting by Rowena.

That is a Yithian, from “The Shadow Out of Time.” Always been a big fan of Yithians, they are suitably ridiculous aliens, recognizably so but also largely free from modern alien design conventions and certainly not a man-in-suit. Just about any painting of a Yithian is going to be a winner for me, but this one is the tops. Just absolutely astounding, all those textures, just an absolute disregard of sense. Extremely like the sundew skirt of the cone, that’s a perfect touch.

[malinastharlock]

There really are not enough eldritch horror memes out there, so here you go. 🐙

[thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery]

Colour Out of Space

[ibrithir-was-here]

Weird Question, I'm trying to make a list of classic (like Victorian/Edwardian/before 1960s) Ghost Stories with colors in the titles for a Halloween thing, but I can't figure out something for Orange, Pink, Blue or Indigo. Any ideas?

Here's what I've got so far, a few of them have multiple as I'm still deciding which I want to do:

The White People/The Novel of the White Powder

Pink

The Red Room/The Red Lodge/Masque of the Red Death

Orange

The Yellow Wallpaper/The King in Yellow

Green Tea/Girl with the Green Ribbon

Blue

Indigo

The Violet Car

Young Goodman Brown

The Novel of the Black Seal

The Colour Out of Space (for good measure xD )

[holy-shit-comics]

[ghostsandgod]

[monstermaster13]

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[jetwhy]

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Lovecraft is often credited with the declaration ," Never explain anything." Though he sometimes defended the self-contained logic of some of his stories he rarely went into detail to explain the impetus for his concepts. Two of HPL's favorite tales of his own manufactue were, THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN, and THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE. The fact that both are self contained, very mysterious, and present no outward connections to the rest of his fiction, are perhaps reasons Lovecraft thought so highly of each. The fact that 'The Colour' has no definite physical form was a feature he himself admired in retrospect. In fact he mentioned that very aspect in letters to friends. It has been mentioned by others that 'COLOUR' seems to anticipate radiation poisoning. Environmental pollution (in this case from outer space) is also a theme. The ZANN story is somewhat unique for Lovecraft because of its location. For years it was been debated if Erich Zann is a resident of Paris, France. In a letter to one of his friends Lovecraft admits that the tale in fact occurred in a sort of 'Dream Paris' of his own devise. Other than his visits to Canada Lovecraft never made it to any country outside U.S. borders. The ink drawing of Lovecraft's THE OUTSIDER pictured below was the work of artist/ illustrator Stephen Fabian. The man with the violin was NOT Erich Zann but of course Albert Einstein, from 1930. The mountain scene was the work of one of HPL's favorite artists, Russian painter, mystic, and Explorer, Nicolas Roerich. (Exhibit 193)

[wordsdonotneedcontext]

Hey fridge, did you know llamas and alpacas can breed?

C

[raepliica]

they're down to their last cigarette so they're sharing✨️✨️

[floweroflaurelin]

Please undo what I’ve done, Lord. I will never ask anything of you, ever again, if you just give me back the life of Gideon Nav.

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The Descent of Gideon Nav, inspired by the statue El descendimiento by Virginio Arias ✨ Prints are available here! ✨

[alena-draws]

Point of view: You've royally pissed off the most powerful being on the planet.

(Knives is currently not on the planet but above so it counts)

(please click on the full image! It's DIN A3 and the effect is better in full view, especially Vash's glowing eyes! Little close ups under the cut)

[thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery]

Fanart for Enothela san's Colour Out of Space

[alienssstufff]

no-longer-chrismas doodles👍

[weirdlookindog]

"It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands... The shaft of phosphorescence from the well grew brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men a sense of doom..." - H. P. Lovecraft

Virgil Finlay - The Colour Out of Space

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - October 1941)