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Entities & creatures

Colour out of Space

The colour is the extraterrestrial or extra-cosmic presence associated with the meteorite that falls on Nahum Gardner’s farm in The Colour out of Space. Perceived through an indescribable hue, it alters the surrounding environment, consumes or drains living things and finally rises from the farm’s well, leaving evidence that some portion remains.

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Characters

Nahum Gardner

Nahum Gardner is the farmer whose home, family and land are destroyed after a meteorite falls beside his well in The Colour out of Space. His decline gives the cosmic event its domestic scale: a prosperous household becomes isolated, exhausted and unable to escape the process transforming its surroundings.

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