ST102 Gothic Monsters
The Colour Out of Space: cosmic and ecological horror
Lovecraft's story of a farm blighted by something from a meteorite, read as the first great ecohorror.
Reading for this lesson
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On Wikisource, from the 1927 magazine text.
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Optional The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart Noel Carroll the chapter defining horror and the monster
To test whether the colour counts as a monster at all.