The Shadow Out of Time

The Shadow Out of Time Synopsis

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'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'

After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth's deep past.

Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as 'Lovecraft's single greatest achievement in fiction'.