H. P. Lovecraft

writer
Short Story

Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle

The Silver Key


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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

Cthulhu Mythos

The Dreams in the Witch-House


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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

Through the Gates of the Silver Key


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Shadow Out of Time


During an economics lecture, Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee’s body and mind are taken over by a being who can travel to any time and place of his choice, and during the next five years the being studies us, all of which Peaslee pieces together after his return.

Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi says that Lovecraft saw the movie Berkeley Square four times in 1933, and “its portrayal of a man of the 20th century who somehow merges his personality with that of his 18th-century ancestor” served as Lovecraft’s inspiration for this story.
The projected mind, in the body of the organism of the future, would then pose as a member of the race whose outward form it wore, learning as quickly as possible all that could be learned of the chosen age and its massed information and techniques.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Battle That Ended a Century


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Ancestor


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Lamp of Alhazred


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Partially Animated Short Film

The Shadow Out of Time


A short adaptation of Lovecraft’s story, but just narration over video and some still-shot animation with no dramatization (not that the story was particularly dramatic to begin with). —Michael Main
his is the story of the nightmare that took hold of my life.
Title card from the movie The Shadow Out of Time, superimposed over fog and
                stars in the night sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel