http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary...outofspace.htm
Recently, I've started to read through some of Lovecraft's short stories and have found them pretty interesting. Of course, they also are pretty racist but in at least once story, "The Color Out of Space", it doesn't show up at all. However, the story features an environment that undergoes extreme changes and degradation from some sort of eldritch being. While reading it, many of the descriptions of those changes sounded somewhat familiar.
About a year previously, I read Silent Spring which describes the degradation of the environment through pesticides. While she was taking her examples from real life, is it possible she had read "The Color Out of Space" and used language from it? Or is it more likely that their styles converged for other reasons?
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