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Chronicle · Written 1921 → Published 1926

The Outsider

Weird Tales, Apr. 1926

The Outsider

Raised alone in a decaying, sunless castle with no memory of any other life, a nameless narrator finally climbs up and out in search of daylight and other people. What he finds at a brightly lit gathering — and what happens when he reaches toward his own reflection — reframes everything about who, or what, has been telling the story.

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