Put up "The Outsider" (1926) and "Medusa's Coil" (1939) on Fantastic Worlds

[jordan179]

Recently I posted a review of Marc Laidlaw's excellent "The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft" (2011) on Fantastic Worlds (review available here, story available here), and I mentioned that it was in many respects inspired by two particular Lovecraft stories:  "The Outsider" for some elements of structure, and "Medusa's Coil" in terms of the final

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[kitten_goddess]

Medusa's Coil is the far more horrifying of the two. It is more intricate, with the layers of revelation piling up on one another, yielding several different interpretation.

I guessed the revelation in The Outsider about halfway through, so I knew what was coming.