This showed up in the Tor Lovecraft Reread a month or so back, and I finally got to reading it. I'm not really sure why it's in the Lovecraft reread, tbh. It's unsettling less for the reincarnation themes and more for the acceptance of an old rich dude claiming someone else's kid

Spoiler

or trying to; she leaves, in the end

, which no one in the story seems to find creepy at all. * shrugs *