title: Assembling Enclosure: Transformations in the Rural Landscape of Post-Medieval North-East England (Explorations in Local and Regional Histo)
author: Ronan O'Donnell
description: <div><B>Ronan O&#39;Donnell </B>has a doctorate from the University of Durham, having gained a BSc in Archaeology from Durham and an MA in English Local History from the University of Leicester. His interests focus on the relationship between global and local process and the implications of changes to systems of land tenure.</div>
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
  
  
  West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that
  no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope
  fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the
  glint of sunlight. On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky,
  with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England
  secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide
  chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low
  gambrel roofs.
  
  
  
  
  
  The old folk have gone away, and foreigners do not like to live there. French-
  Canadians have tried it, Italians have tried it, and the Poles have come and
  departed. It is not because of anything that can be seen or heard or handled,
  but because of something that is imagined. The place is not good for
  imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night. It must be this which
  keeps the