History Literature / TheColourOutOfSpace

* BodyHorror: The fate of the Colour's victims.

* ThereIsAnother: Actually played for horror. Pierce notices that when the Colour leaves Earth, a part of it breaks off, try to follow the rest, only to fail and return to the well. The Colour has left some offspring on Earth, which in all probability is the reason for the Blasted Heath.

* ''Color From the Dark:'' Transplants the story from 1890's America to WW2 Italy, and the Color comes from deep underground instead of from space.

The story is one of several of Lovecraft's that received an audio drama adaptation from the Atlanta Radio Theater Company. Strange as it may seem, elements of this short story surface in the video game ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted. Before the Corruption sets in, the plants and fruit that grows on the property looks unusually healthy and ripe but are toxic and inedible.

* EnergyBeing: The Colour is either a living cloud of gas, or this.

* StarfishAliens: The Colour. This was {{Invoked|Trope}} by Lovecraft, who didn't like how human-like aliens were in other works of his time.

* ThereIsAnother: Actually played for horror. Pierce notices that when the Colour leaves Earth, a part of it breaks off, try to follow the rest, only to fail and return to the well. The Colour has left some offspring on Earth, which in all probability the reason for the Blasted Heath.

* EldritchAbomination: The titular Colour is a particularly creepy example because its nature is never discerned--only its effects, ''vis-à-vis'' Ammi's tale and the nature of the heath itself. It simply crashed on the property one day and anythign else is pure speculation.

* EldritchAbomination: The titular Colour is a particularly creepy example because its nature is never discerned--only its effects, vis-a-vis Ammi's tale and the nature of the heath itself. It simply crashed on the property one day and anythign else is pure speculation.

* HumanoidAbomination: Humans last longer than most creatures affected by the Colour but instead turn into... things, things that are definetly not human anymore.

* AnimalAbomination: Gardner's animals turn into twisted abominations before dying.

* EldritchAbomination: The titular Colour is a particularly creepy example because its nature is never discerned--only its effects, vis-a-vis Ammi's tale and the nature of the heath itself.

A story by Creator/HPLovecraft inspired by Creator/ArthurMachen's "The Novel of the White Powder" (from the novel ''The Three Imposters''). The story is first told from the perspective of a property investigator visiting the town of [[LovecraftCountry Arkham]] who is surveying prospective sites for a new reservoir. Eventually he starts asking about the mysterious "blasted heath" which the people had been trying to avoid talking about for the entire time. Eventually he finds Ammi, an old man living near the heath, who is willing to explain what happened there and why absolutely nothing can live on that burgeoning plot of land...

* Film/DieMonsterDie starring Creator/BorisKarloff, it takes some of the ideas of the novel and then follows a completely different plot.
* Film/TheCurse starring Creator/WilWheaton and directed by Creator/DavidKeith, actually has a plot not so unfaithful to the novel.

Can be read [[http://dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecolouroutofspace.htm here.]]

The story is one of several of Lovecraft's that received an audio drama adaptation from the Atlanta Radio Theater Company.

And yes, it was an inspiration for ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion''.

** One scene later, Ammi is holding a heavy stick, which ''"he had picked up in the attic for some purpose"''.

:: One scene later, Ammi is holding a heavy stick, which ''"he had picked up in the attic for some purpose"''.

* WalkingWasteland: Although how much of a "character" the Colour is, is debatable.

** One scene later, Ammi is holding a heavy stick, which ''"he had picked up in the attic for some purpose"''.

** And it seems to be slowly spreading.

** Gratuitous Editorial Comment: Inserting a romantic subplot into an H.P. Lovecraft work is … fundamentally and creepily wrong.