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Tagged: 1926

Characters

Lavinia Whateley

Lavinia Whateley is the mother of Wilbur and his concealed twin in The Dunwich Horror. Her early involvement in the family’s inherited lore gives way to fear and exclusion as Wilbur takes control, ending in an unexplained disappearance in 1926.

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The isolated narrator reaches toward an unbearable reflection.
Literature

The Outsider

The Outsider follows an isolated narrator who escapes a decaying castle in search of light and human company, only to discover why the people he approaches flee in terror. Written in 1921 and first published in the April 1926 Weird Tales, it makes the apparent monster the voice through which the reader experiences longing, fear and recognition.

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