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The Color Out of Time

Michael Shea (1984)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age16
Goodreads3.45

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

Body HorrorDeathViolence

Positive tags

MysterySurvivalVengeance

Tropes

Lovecraftian HorrorHostile PlanetMonster HorrorLost ColonySoft SFSocial SFCosmic Horror

Themes

RevengeCosmic IndifferenceNature vs TechnologyIsolationSurvival Against the UnknownHidden Evil

Synopsis

The flooded New England valley made a beautiful holiday spot, with twenty miles of secluded lakeshore. But visitors Gerald Sternbruck and Ernst Carlsberg soon realise that the still waters of the lake conceal a frightful evil that preys on flora, fauna - and human beings. Then they discover that the same evil first manifested itself before the valley was flooded - and may have been the basis for H.P. Lovecraft's classic story The Colour out of Space. For fifty years one waman has been planning her revenge on the monstrous force which caused the strange shimmering colours -- and sucks the very life from the people in its clutches....

Tags

HorrorCosmic HorrorLovecraftian FictionNew England Gothic