Weirdwards

This story tells, like Lovecraft's The Outsider, of a nameless narrator's wanderings, this time to the "dim and dubious" city of Malnéant where bells "tolled recurrently, sometimes faint and far off, and sometimes with a loud and startling clangor that seemed to come almost from overhead". Here the narrator comes across funeral preparations for someone he may once have known...

More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/readings-a-night-in-malneant/

In opposition to his more openly bigoted work where the noble protagonist is elevated above what Lovecraft sees as the wretched morass of daily life, ‘The Outsider’ shows the outside world as normal and happy. The scene that the Outsider stumbles across, and eventually disrupts, is described as “gorgeously ablaze with light and sending forth sound of the gayest revelry”. It is the narrator, Lovecraft himself, that is an abject, pathetic being – “a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape”.

More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/readings-the-outsider-hp-lovecraft/