American library books ยป Short Story ยป Color Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (reading an ebook .TXT) ๐Ÿ“•

Read book online ยซColor Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (reading an ebook .TXT) ๐Ÿ“•ยป.   Author   -   H. P. Lovecraft



1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Go to page:
something or else it would quickly spread. Is it fastened to the roots of those trees that claw the air? One of the current Arkham tales is about fat oaks that shine and move as they ought not to do at night.

What it is, only God knows. In terms of matter I suppose the thing Ammi described would be called a gas, but this gas obeyed the laws that are not of our cosmos. This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. It was just a colour out of spaceโ€”a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

I doubt very much if Ammi consciously lied to me, and I do not think his tale was all a freak of madness as the townsfolk had forewarned. Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terribleโ€”though I know not in what proportionโ€”still remains. I shall be glad to see the water come. Meanwhile I hope nothing will happen to Ammi. He saw so much of the thingโ€”and its influence was so insidious. Why has he never been able to move away? How clearly he recalled those dying words of Nahumโ€™sโ€”โ€œCanโ€™t git awayโ€”draws yeโ€”ye know summโ€™atโ€™s cominโ€™ but tainโ€™t no useโ€”โ€. Ammi is such a good old manโ€”when the reservoir gang gets to work I must write the chief engineer to keep a sharp watch on him. I would hate to think of him as the grey, twisted, brittle monstrosity which persists more and more in troubling my sleep.

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Go to page:

Free e-book: ยซColor Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (reading an ebook .TXT) ๐Ÿ“•ยป   -   read online now on website american library books (americanlibrarybooks.com)

Comments (0)

There are no comments yet. You can be the first!
Add a comment