The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft - Numbered Edition

The Colour Out of Space is H.P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of cosmic horror. When a meteorite lands on a secluded farm, something begins to spread through the surrounding countryside. The vegetation flourishes grotesquely. The water turns foul. The very atmosphere seems altered. Lovecraft builds a slow, growing dread as the natural world gives way to something wholly alien.

Lovecraft wrote the story in March 1927, in the midst of finalizing his landmark essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. Dissatisfied with the all-too-human aliens populating much of the fiction he had been surveying for the essay, he set out to imagine an entity so foreign it could scarcely be described—a presence beyond comprehension, beyond category. The story appeared that September in Amazing Stories and remained, by Lovecraft's own account, his favorite of his short works.

The Colour Out of Space stands among the most influential stories in Lovecraft's canon, and one of the purest expressions of his vision of a universe indifferent to human understanding.

The limited edition of The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft is presented in three states: Artist Edition, Numbered Edition and Lettered Edition.

NUMBERED EDITION

• 6” x 9.85” trim size.
• Limited to 250 copies.
• Signed by S.T. Joshi and Sally Hands.
• Seven wood engravings by Sally Hands, printed from the block.
• Quarter leather binding with hand marbled paper by Renato Crepaldi, created for this edition.
• Marbled "tiger eye" pattern intended to evoke the alien force central to the story.
• Spine leather sourced from J Hewit & Sons.
• Handmade leather head and tail bands.
• Text set in ITC Golden Cockerel.
• Designed by award-winning designer Misha Beletsky.
• Printed letterpress on mouldmade Liber Charta by Pat Randle & Ellen Bills at Nomad Letterpress on a Heidelberg Cylinder in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure with cloth-covered boards and velour-lined trays.
• Endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra.
• Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

Published editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.
Illustrations © 2025 by Sally Hands