It's often said that the most important rule in storytelling is, "Show, don't tell." but with horror, especially those stories by H.P. Lovecraft, break that rule as they work best when you don't "show" so much as vaguely suggest. The more ephemeral and unnameable the threat the better, as if you can see the horror and name it can be defeated. It's because of that unknowable aspect that despite being seen in print in a thousand and one different publications this is I believe the only visual adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Outsider." but if you're only going to get one shot then you really can't complain if it's by the pen of Alec Stevens( who would later handle the art in one of my favorite issues of Sandman, "A Tale of Two Cities").
The way Stevens avoids showing us too much, and thus spoiling Lovecraft's twist ending, is perfect in it's simplicity: make it a shadow play. When all you have are shadows no details can be given away and the brilliant use of the negative space, expressed at times in inky black and others stark whites creates an incredibly tense, eerie, nightmarish mood that sticks with you long after you've put the book down. My favorite part however is the fact that even the text becomes apart of that visual storytelling, alternating between black and white and even size and shape to highlight the tone of the story. It's a true work of art that I just drool over when ever I revisit it.