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At the turn of the 20th century, man's increased reliance upon science was both opening new worlds and solidifying the manners by which he could understand them.

Lovecraft portrays this potential for a growing gap of man's understanding of the universe as a potential for horror.

Most notably in " The Colour Out of Space ", the inability of science to comprehend a contaminated meteorite leads to horror.