Books matching: new england lake
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Save:At an idyllic New England lake in summertime, two older college professors, Gerald and Ernst, notice a strange, disturbingly colored halo about the lake one dusk. Later they find twisted, stunted trees and giant insects in an isolated tract of the woods. They also feel depression and dread for no seeming reason. Eventually the horror grows as the strange color exhibits and manifests a malevolent nature poisoning spirit and body alike. The tale is set 40 or so years after the events of HPL's novella. The old gent is even the mentor of one of the main protagonists. It turns out, the Colour was actually true if you have read the Colour, you'll recall the ending, the after the climax, Amie looks back and thinks he sees a brief flicker in the well. This event is the seed from which this story grows.
All the dire occurrences which I now set myself to report had for their setting a lake in the New England region—a dam-created lake which I shall not name. Let it—in the full force of that archaic for...1984•151 pages
