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H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider
The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft is a horror story. Although some readers may not fancy a horror story, the first line of this story brings in many a reader, “Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness” (Lovecraft 3570. This first line brings a reader into the story. After reading the first line the reader not only wants to know that was so bad about this childhood but if it relates to their own. H.P. Lovecraft did not have the best childhood, both his parents died when he was young and he suffered breakdowns (Kennedy/Gioia 357). Knowing this about the author, the reader may wonder if this story is about Lovecraft. Lovecraft pulls the reader in and the reader actually may sympathies with the narrator of the story.
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