Scary Stuff
This happened to the vegetation along the road.
What was strange, abnormal colors and/or weird shapes?
The first things affected by the poison.
What is fruit, vegetation, livestock?
At the beginning of the story, the narrator heard this gossip from the people in Arkham.
What is that the place for the new reservoir, called the blasted heath, is evil?
The grayness coming into dying animals and people represents this:
What is the sucking color out of a living thing; in essence sucking the life out of it?
The narrator was in the area of Arkham for this purpose.
What is to survey the land for the reservoir?
This happened to the fruit.
What is tasted terrible and was ruined?
Zenas, Thaddeus, and Merwin
Who are the Gardner boys or Nahum's sons?
This happened after the meteorite landed near the Gardner property.
What is that the land and it crops and vegetation became poisoned, and the trees started to sway?
The well represents this:
What is the pit where evil lives?
The reason the narrator sought ought Ammi Pierce.
What is morbid curiosity?
This gradually happened to Mrs. Gardner, Thaddeus, and Nahum.
What is lost all their wits, went insane, .lost all their color, became a stinky, crumbling mass of gray dust?
Became a shrieking madwoman who had to be locked into the attic and later turned into a stinking, crumbling monstrosity.
Who is Mrs. Gardner?
This eventually happened to every sample fragment of the meteorite that scientists took for study.
What is it disappeared?
The swaying of the trees and the tips of light at the end of the branches represents this:
What is the demonstration that an evil presence lives under the ground?
The reason the narrator will not drink the water when the reservoir is filled in.
What is that he thinks it will be poisoned?
This happened to Zenas and Merwin
What is something in the well killed them and left only their bones?
Nahum's friend and neighbor. The only left years later who remembered the story of the Gardner family.
Who is Ammi?
This happened between Thaddeus and Mrs. Gardner while they were locked in upstairs.
What is that they screamed and yelled at each other in a language that sounded otherworldly?
The color blasting off into space leaving behind desolation represents this:
What is that the aliens drained color/life from the earth to strengthen itself, and one can infer that the alien has done this on other planets?
The last thoughts the narrator had about Ammi Pierce.
The name of the acreage around the Gardners farm where no one would travel or live.
What is the blasted heath?
He made an exploratory journey for the reservoir project and just had to learn the story about the blasted heath and the Gardner family.
Who is the narrator?
This happened even though no wind was blowing and it was dark.
What is that the trees swayed and stretched and shot tips of unnatural light out of the ends of the branches?
The character Ammi represents this:
What is truth?
The reason the narrator wrote out this story?
What is that he wants to get it out of his system and write down the truth?