Gothic Themes
- The Uncanny The story opens with the confession of a murder by the narrator and ends in a questionable death.
- Unreliable narrator The writer uses an unstable narrator to peruse their mysterious psyche to make the story unreliable and bothersome.
- Domestic abjection Derleth uses the safety of a small town as a way to create the strange within the familiar.
- Monster
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