Ammi's Account of the Strange Days

The Colour Out of Space

This flow follows the narrator’s investigation from the ominous landscape to Ammi Pierce’s testimony and an enduring fear of what remains.

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Bearing strength in each event

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The Blasted Landscape The Blasted Landscape from "The Colour Out of Space". A Place Avoided Survey Work A reservoir survey brings the narrator into valleys where old farms have been abandoned and woods feel oppressive.

The Blasted Landscape from "The Colour Out of Space". A Place Avoided Survey Work A reservoir survey brings the narrator into valleys where old farms have been abandoned and woods feel oppressive.

A Place Avoided Survey Work A reservoir survey brings the narrator into valleys where old farms have been abandoned and woods feel oppressive. The Grey Heath The treeless patch and ruined well prompt questions about the local name and the recent history behind it.

Arkham's Evasive Stories Arkham's Evasive Stories from "The Colour Out of Space". Rumours Without Answers A Recent Disaster Older residents say a family vanished or died in the 1880s, but avoid giving details.

Arkham's Evasive Stories from "The Colour Out of Space". Rumours Without Answers A Recent Disaster Older residents say a family vanished or died in the 1880s, but avoid giving details.

Rumours Without Answers A Recent Disaster Older residents say a family vanished or died in the 1880s, but avoid giving details. The Last Witness They direct the narrator away from Ammi’s account, which makes his testimony the only path toward understanding.

The Reluctant Visit The Reluctant Visit from "The Colour Out of Space". Listening to Ammi A Frightened Host The narrator finds Ammi aged and wary, but more alert than the town’s dismissive descriptions suggest.

The Reluctant Visit from "The Colour Out of Space". Listening to Ammi A Frightened Host The narrator finds Ammi aged and wary, but more alert than the town’s dismissive descriptions suggest.

Listening to Ammi A Frightened Host The narrator finds Ammi aged and wary, but more alert than the town’s dismissive descriptions suggest. A Story Begins Ammi’s relief that the valley will be flooded turns the meeting into a testimony about the past.

A Warning About the Water A Warning About the Water from "The Colour Out of Space". The Narrator Withdraws A Changed Understanding Ammi’s narrative connects the meteor, the family’s decline, and the presence in the well.

A Warning About the Water from "The Colour Out of Space". The Narrator Withdraws A Changed Understanding Ammi’s narrative connects the meteor, the family’s decline, and the presence in the well.

The Narrator Withdraws A Changed Understanding Ammi’s narrative connects the meteor, the family’s decline, and the presence in the well. Refusal to Return The narrator abandons his surveying post and rejects the prospect of drinking the new city water.

Fear Outlives Testimony Fear Outlives Testimony from "The Colour Out of Space". A Threat Beyond the Story The Unresolved Remnant The narrator suspects that the region still holds traces of the Colour despite the farm’s destruction.

Fear Outlives Testimony from "The Colour Out of Space". A Threat Beyond the Story The Unresolved Remnant The narrator suspects that the region still holds traces of the Colour despite the farm’s destruction.

A Threat Beyond the Story The Unresolved Remnant The narrator suspects that the region still holds traces of the Colour despite the farm’s destruction. An Unsettled Departure The coming reservoir promises concealment, not certainty, and leaves the narrator wary of the whole country.

More than fifty years after the Strange Days

The evening before the narrator meets Ammi

The morning after the first survey

After hearing Ammi's full account

Near the narrative's end