Weird Tales #313 (Summer 1998). Darrell Schweitzer

having become, among his other accomplishments, a Zen monk; he also describes himself as a follower of Bertrand Russell and B.F. Skinner), applied a variety of psychological approaches, not to Lovecraft’s life, but to his writing. One dazzling piece, “The Four Faces of ‘The Outsider,’” explores a single story as autobiography, as Jungian allegory, as a Freudian and mechanistic nightmare, and makes them all work, each facet providing new and striking insights.

      More than anyone else, Mosig was the first to show us Lovecraft as a serious thinker and an artist of almost infinite depth. That he wrote only a small amount merely shows that if you say something important enough, you don’t have to say it at great length.

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