The Shadow Out of Time (Fantasy and Horror Classics) ; With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

<p><strong>His mind was stolen across the gulf of eons. His body was used by an alien. He is a ghost in his own life.</strong></p><p>Professor <strong>Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee</strong> 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.</p><p>When 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.</p><p>He soon discovers the truth pieced together from forgotten memories and research into occult lore: his mind was temporarily <strong>exchanged</strong> across time and space with a member of the <strong>Great Race of Yith</strong>. 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.</p><p>Peaslee'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.</p><p><strong><em>The Shadow Out of Time</em></strong> is <strong>H. P. Lovecraft's</strong> 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.</p>