The Colour Out of Space was written by Lovecraft in March 1927, immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay Supernatural Horror in Literature . Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources, and it became one of Lovecraft's most popular works, and remained his personal favorite of his short stories. The story