{"product_id":"the-shadow-out-of-time-h-p-lovecraft-9781447468608","title":"The Shadow Out of Time (Fantasy and Horror Classics); With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHis mind was stolen across the gulf of eons. His body was used by an alien. He is a ghost in his own life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor \u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Wingate Peaslee\u003c\/strong\u003e, a brilliant political economist at Miskatonic University, suffers a sudden, catastrophic mental seizure in May 1908. For five full years, he lapses into a state of profound amnesia, speaking in strange languages and exhibiting a vast, alien intelligence while his own personality is completely submerged.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Peaslee abruptly returns to normal in 1913, he has no memory of the preceding years. However, he is now haunted by fragmented, terrifying dreams of a monstrous, pre-human civilization and a journey to a colossal city of non-Euclidean architecture on a dying world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe soon discovers the truth, pieced together from forgotten memories and research into occult lore: his mind was temporarily \u003cstrong\u003eexchanged\u003c\/strong\u003e across time and space with a member of the \u003cstrong\u003eGreat Race of Yith\u003c\/strong\u003e. These immense, conical, insect-like beings perfected the science of mind-transference, projecting their consciousnesses through time to inhabit the bodies of suitable hosts in any era to study history and catalog the fate of the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeaslee's true ordeal culminates in a terrifying archaeological expedition to the Australian desert, where he descends into the ruins of the Yithian city and finds written proof of his horrifying experience, a final, chilling message left behind by his own consciousness, which was trapped in a Yithian body in the deep past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shadow Out of Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003eH. P. Lovecraft's\u003c\/strong\u003e penultimate major work and a masterpiece of science fiction and cosmic horror. It is a staggering tale of identity loss, time travel, and the profound, chilling terror of knowing that human history is merely a brief, insignificant footnote in the timeline of the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. P. Lovecraft,George Henry Weiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1447468600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781447468608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantasy and Horror Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d","brand":"H. P. Lovecraft","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800257114367,"sku":"9781447468608","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shadow-out-of-time-h-p-lovecraft-9781447468608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}