The Outsider (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

I know not what I am, only that I am not of this world.

Trapped since birth within the crumbling, lightless stone walls of an endless castle, the narrator knows nothing of the outside world, of nature, or of other people. His entire existence is a solitary, gothic nightmare spent amongst decaying volumes and the silence of his ancestral tomb. He knows himself only as an Outsider--a being profoundly different and utterly alone.

Driven by a desperate, agonizing curiosity to see the sun and kn...