When they looked back toward the valley and the distant Gardner place at the bottom they saw a fearsome sight. And that’s quite a trick on Lovecraft’s part. It’s intense – particularly for its time. The violence of the horror here is extreme. There is a darkness to this story that is truly unsettling. And, crucially, this story veers distinctly from that template in one way. Many writers before Lovecraft established this formula – Poe, Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Stevenson, Doyle to name just a few. OK, but we really shouldn’t call “Colour Out Of Space” the template. The mystery is wrapped up, or, in this case, it lingers into an uncertain future. The weirdness shows itself or is identified. It seems supernatural, certainly sinister. In many ways, this story is the template for mystery horror fiction. It goes like this: Pushing the usual horror-mystery template into extreme violence
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