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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:42 pm
by JJ Burke
the outsider is a reanimated corpse, right? maybe hpl was alluding to his own old-fashioned ways, feeling like he should no longer be alive in the modern age. he saw himself as a throwback english gentleman in a world of degenerating standards and foundations. could be wrong
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:48 pm
by Danial
Has anyone seen Stuart Gordon's
Castle Freak. It's based on
The Outsider and I was Just wondering how it translated?
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:01 pm
by Eternities End
Is the outsider the one with the ghoul guy? I cant remember how that one goes.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:22 pm
by Danial
Yeah, the guy climbs to the top of a tower and comes out in a tomb. He finds a nearby house and is surprised that the inhabitants scream at the sight of him... until he sees his own reflection in the mirror.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:21 pm
by Eternities End
Yah thats a pretty good one.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:14 pm
by TentacleThingy
Jesus Prime wrote:The stay in the castle itself seems autobiographical, after that it sinks to almost a pastiche of Poe. Not his greatest work.
Well The Outsider was written as an homage to Poe.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:16 pm
by Eternities End
Yah Poe was really ugly and lived in an underground castle...
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:33 pm
by wilum pugmire
Ramsey Campbell read the first portion of "The Outsider" at the Lovecraft Film Festival, stopping at the point where the narrator finds that the top of his castle is actually a place of solid ground in some burial chamber. This, originally, was where the story ended. Then Lovecraft's imagination took him further into the narrative. There is neither meaning nor plot in the tale -- it is merely a bit of dark phantasy, a tissue of dreaming........
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:12 am
by Eternities End
Oh shit!!!! Ramsey Campbell...the one and only