Question: Which American author lends his name to a subgenre of horror fiction exemplified by the 1927 short story "The Colour Out of Space"?
Sentence (from "The Colour Out of Space"): The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.
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