SOURCE: Mabbott, T. O. Review of The Outsider and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft. American Literature 12, no. 1 (March 1940): 136.

In the following review of The Outsider and Others, Mabbot praises the volume for its “striking and original stories of horror.”

[The Outsider and Others] is a large volume, the first of a promised three-volume collection of the writings of an author known for striking and original stories of horror, for which he invented a mythology of his own. He was a typical New Englander, though in some senses a follower of Poe and Dunsany. Time will tell if his place be very high in our literary history; that he has a place seems certain. For if the popular magazines, as he felt, forced him to be melodramatic, his style was unhampered, and has a fine quality. The present volume consists chiefly of stories. Among them his own favorite seems...