The Colour Out of Ranigad

They came for the green. The green consumed them. For three generations, the city-world of 7-V has been dying. Metal. Grey. Processed air. When factory worker Jace sees an advertisement for Ranigad-a frontier planet kept wild for tourism-he books a two-week trip for his wife and three children. They have never seen a tree. Never felt grass. Never tasted food that came from actual soil. The cabin is perfect. The lake is blue. The forest is alive with a hundred shades of green. Then the knocking starts. Jace finds three-fingered footprints beneath his children's window. His youngest son walks into the woods and talks about a "friend" who lives in the bog. His wife dreams of being eaten alive by her own children-and wakes up hungry. The emergency phone is dead. The pickup ship isn't coming. The forest has gone silent. And something in the swamp is watching. The Colour Out of Ranigad is a slow-burn cosmic horror novel in the tradition of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space and Machen's The Great God Pan, where the real monster isn't the thing in the bog-it's what the family becomes before they reach it.