We conclude our foray into cosmic horror with the third and final piece from H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider. Written as a sort of homage to one of Lovecraft's biggest influences, Edgar Allen Poe, The Outsider works as a bridge between worlds. Written over the course of several months in 1921, the story pushes forward its themes of loneliness, isolation and melancholy in a way that evokes a mix of introspective dread and futility rather than a purely cosmic one, exclusively. It exists in the realm of Cosmic Horror but wears all the trappings of its Gothic roots right on its sleeve. Told from the perspective of a man seemingly imprisoned in a massive and dilapidated castle, The Outsider takes Lovecraft's signature brand of horror and redirects it; not out to the universe but towards, perhaps, a more frightening and expansive unknown. Ourselves.