This story is about a man who gets caught in the rain on a bike trail. In search of shelter he goes off trail and finds a house. He went inside thinking whoever lives there would understand. Inside he finds a Portrait of a man who a harsh and hard to understand who speaks in a Shakespearean style with a southern accent. During the conversation lightning strikes and the only clue you have to what happened to the man is that "his mind has been saved from oblivion" most likely himself becoming a portrait...forever trapped but forever alive to talk with the portrait.
Memorable Line: "A moment later came house of unutterable secrets and bringing the oblivion which alone saved my mind." (pg.9)
Style: Dark ending reminds me of "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar Allen Poe
Exterior Notes: H.P is a great writer with shocking endings when it's not someone waking up in a hospital, any time he doesn't end it that way I get chills just by the thoughts that enter your mind by the vauge endings of what might've happened to the main characters. He makes you care about characters that you don't even know their names half the time.
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