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Hark! A Vagrant
Hark! A Vagrant is a comic strip by Kate Beaton that mainly focuses on historical events and

Die Farbe
''This article is about the film based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft. For the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, see The Color Out Of Space.''

Die Farbe, or The Color Out of Space, is a 2010 German horror movie produced by Sphärentor Filmproduktion and directed and written by Huan Vu, starring Ingo Heise as Jonathan Davis and Michael Kausch and Marco Leibnitz as Armin Pierske. It is based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Color Out of Space. The film tells the story of the Gärtener family, as told by Pierske to Davis. It is mainly in black and white, except for a few scenes.

Plot summary
The film begins with a policeman informing Jonathan Davis that his father is missing after a trip to Germany. Davis goes to visit one of his father's old friends, who tells him a village where his father could have gone(??? Not sure yet). Davis flies to Germany and drives to the village, where dam workers teell him that everybody except the elderly have left. After asking some residents of the village, one elderly resident, Armin Pierske, recognizes an old World War II image of his father as a young American soldier. Pierske tells Davis when he met Davis's father at Pierske's farmhouse, which Davis's father and his fellow soldiers were using for quarter. Davis's father agrees to move out of Pierske's farmhouse, and sees an old farmhouse in an adjacent valley. However, Pierske fervently tells Davis's father not to go, saying "I don't think it's gone yet." However, Davis's father goes anyway, bringing Pierske along.

Pierske tells a story about the farmhouse (yes, a story within a story). One night, a meteorite landed in the backyard of the Gärtener family farmhouse. In the morning, the meteorite had shrunk to a fraction of its former size. Also, when a scientist attempted to hammer into the meteorite, he reported it was "soft, like plastic." The scientists take a sample, which disappears after making contact with silicon. The meteorite continues to shrink, and the scientists are unable to determine any more from their samples other than the fact the substance is a magnetic metal that reacts with silicon. Eventually, a pod of unidentifiable color is unearthed from the meteorite. It is broken with a chisel. It then popped in a small explosion, and disappears. The few meteorite samples eventually vanish, and the scientists do not visit the crater again. The Gärtener family lives on in peace at their farmhouse.

In spring, Nahum Gärtener, the father in the Gärtener family, calls on Pierske to show him his new fruit harvest. The fruits are huge, but have a detestable aftertaste and are inedible. However, the family still has enough to eat from the crops on the hills surrounding the valley.

Slowly, the Gärteners are seen less and less in the village. Thaddeus, the middle son in the family, says he can see the branches of trees moving even though there is no wind,