Short Story
H. P. Lovecraft
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Through the Gates of the Silver Key
- by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price
- in Weird Tales, July 1934
Short Story
The Shadow Out of Time
- by H. P. Lovecraft
- Astounding, June 1936
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.
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.
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
The Lamp of Alhazred
- by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
- in The Survivor and Others (Arkham House, 1957)
Partially Animated Short Film
The Shadow Out of Time
- written and directed by Richard Svensson and Daniel Lenneér
- (Youtube: Bluworm Channel, 30 March 2012)
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
