A meteor travels millions of miles and crashes into the hills of Arkham. When it breaks, a supernatural hue, never seen before, emerges and infects the groundwater of a water well. Over time, the color passes to trees, animals and human beings, who are upset and mad. The threat takes on an impenetrable character and escape becomes impossible.

In The Color that Fell from the Sky, HP Lovecraft —undisputed master of American Gothic and central author of the Red Fox Books catalog— manages to drag the reader into a maelstrom of metaphysical terror, in which the fragility of the human being in the face of the incomprehensible becomes evident. The rot is penetrating the beings that inhabit that land, unable to do anything in the face of death that lurks ever closer.

Salvador Sanz's illustrations, with a marked hyper-realistic style, signify this short novel for young people and adults —translated by Elvio Gandolfo— through a powerful handling of contrasts and the irruption of light. Lovecraftian mythology takes on new life through the technique of Sanz, who masterfully recreates the stench that surrounds the gloomy forests of Arkham and captures cosmic horror through the power of color.