Rather too late to benefit from the movie, Penguin is set to publish an £8.99 paperback of The Colour Out of Space under their Penguin Classics imprint. Amazon lists it as on pre-order for early July 2020.

The contents will be “The Colour Out of Space”, “The Whisperer in Darkness” and “The Shadow Out of Time”, and one assumes they’ll use the S.T. Joshi texts and annotations from the existing Penguin Classics editions. Penguin has popped two quotes from leftist newspapers on the Amazon page, presumably in the vain hope of quieting a Twitter-tantrum about Lovecraft being published again under the ‘Penguin Classics’ label, aka ‘Modern Classics’.

As is usual with Amazon, the page currently has links that sidetrack the potential buyer onto utter crapware with the same title. The big publishers such as Penguin would do us all a favour of they were to haul Amazon in front of Trading Standards officers in the UK, and put a stop to this underhand practice. But I guess there’s nothing to stop a merry band of readers doing the same, and the political climate now feels right for such a move.