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.