The Colour out of Space 1-Secrets
in the lee ...
What better place to find inspiration than the poetic writing of H.P. Lovecraft?
Lovecraft penned The Colour out of Space in 1927. The language is gorgeous, the story entrancing.
(So, yes, we thought it was the perfect story to turn into a graphic novel. Thank you Sara Barkat!)
Here is how the tale opens:
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.
