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Characters

Nahum Gardner

Nahum Gardner is the farmer whose home, family and land are destroyed after a meteorite falls beside his well in The Colour out of Space. His decline gives the cosmic event its domestic scale: a prosperous household becomes isolated, exhausted and unable to escape the process transforming its surroundings.

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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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