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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....
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Is The Color Out of Time appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This Lovecraftian sci-fi horror features body horror, life-draining alien forces, and moderate violence. The atmospheric terror and existential dread are more psychological than graphic, but the premise involves creatures preying on humans.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, body horror, and violence.
Who'll love this
Teens drawn to cosmic horror and Lovecraft's legacy will appreciate this chilling tale of an alien entity lurking beneath a New England lake.