La couleur venue du ciel: La collection HP Lovecraft

Écrit par Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Raconté par Patrick Blandin

La Couleur tombée du ciel (The Colour Out of Space) est une nouvelle fantastique et de science-fiction de H. P. Lovecraft publiée en 1927. Un jeune architecte originaire de Boston vient à Arkham afin d'étudier un projet de réservoir à l'ouest de la ville. Il entend alors parler d'une légende qui court à propos d'étranges événements qui se seraient produits dans les années 1880 sur la Lande Foudroyée. D'abord sceptique, le narrateur prend peu à peu conscience que la désolation du lieu (paysage grisâtre, végétation qui a la consistance de la cendre) n'est pas d'origine naturelle. Lorsqu'il se renseigne sur les causes possibles de cet état de fait, il entend parler d'une étrange météorite tombée en 1880 dans le champ du paysan Nahum Gardner.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Compagnie Du Savoir
• Date de sortie: 9 sept. 2022
• ISBN: 9782821188044

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.