The Shadow out of Time, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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"The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
The Shadow out of Time, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft- Published on: 2015-09-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .18" w x 8.50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 76 pages
About the Author Howard Phillips Lovecraft, August 1890 - March 1937, was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works ofhorror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born inProvidence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Phony "Corrections" By J. Whelan Don't be fooled. A "definitive" version of "The Shadow out of Time" would be one that, like the early Arkham House texts, was based on the author's hand-corrected copies of the June 1936 issue of ASTOUNDING STORIES magazine. That is the version that follows Lovecraft's last instructions and obeys Lovecraft's final wishes.But that is not THIS edition. The real purpose of these phony "corrections" (as with all Joshi-edited texts) is not to honor the author's wishes, but to establish a renewed copyright claim to texts that might otherwise have entered public domain. In this case, the immediate excuse for the "corrections" is the rediscovery of an early hand-written draft of the story which, not surprisingly, differs in countless minor ways from the text as finalized by Lovecraft.The basic facts are not in serious dispute. The earliest surviving draft of this story (any earlier ones having been destroyed by Lovecraft) was completed by Lovecraft in February 1935. It is barely-legible and hand-scribbled in a child's notebook. Later that summer, Lovecraft visited his friend Robert Barlow in Florida, and during the visit Barlow typed the manuscript. When Lovecraft went home at the end of the summer, he took Barlow's typescript with him, and left the manuscript with Barlow as a gift.Lovecraft then made additional revisions/corrections to Barlow's typescript. This typescript does not survive, so we cannot know how it differed from the hand-written manuscript, or what further revisions/corrections Lovecraft made to it. By mid-September had sent it to his friends in the "New York Crowd" to read and give him feedback.In late October, Lovecraft learned from his agent that ASTOUNDING STORIES had accepted "At the Mountains of Madness". A week or two later, Lovecraft's friend Donald Wandrei, acting as Lovecraft's agent but deducting no fee, submitted the Barlow typescript of "Shadow out of Time." Astounding immediately accepted that as well.Then occurred the process of revising, editing and finalizing the texts for publication. Any details of this process are lost in mists of time (as is the typescript Lovecraft submitted). However, it cannot be lightly assumed that any changes made during this period are contrary to the author's wishes. Editors and authors are not natural enemies, and, in theory at least, an editor can do nothing without an author's consent and approval. In fact, in the case of "At the Mountains of Madness" even Joshi admits that the text, as published in ASTOUNDING STORIES contains post-submission revisions that must have originated from Lovecraft himself. This is why, ordinarily, the final published text is the best evidence of an author's final wishes. In a perfect world, it would always work out this way.But this is not a perfect world, and in this case, when these two stories appeared in ASTOUNDING STORIES in the spring and summer of 1936, Lovecraft was not satisfied with the published text, especially in the case of "At the Mountains of Madness". He expressed his dissatisfaction by writing many hand-corrections on his published magazine copies. He was less upset with "Shadow.." and his corrections to "Shadow..." were less extensive than those he made to "Mountains". They mainly consisting altering capitalization (for instance, he objected to the capitalization of Moon and Moonlight). In one extreme case, he inserted 3 words, evidently to replace words that got dropped.These and other trivialities were Lovecraft's final instructions regarding the text. This edition does NOT follow those instructions, but reverts to the abandoned, hand-penciled draft of over 18 months earlier.Still, this text is worth owning because it stands as an expose of the mind and methods behind the whole dishonest "definitive Joshi texts" project. There are extensive textual notes, and here, more than in any other Joshi text, is where Joshi "shows his work". It is not a pretty sight, and as one reads Joshi's strained justifications, ones jaw drops open in awe at his arrogance, as he tries to convince the reader that, because he is a "textual scholar", he knows better than Lovecraft what Lovecraft really wanted. Watch him scold Lovecraft for not "scupulously" correcting the text to match his earlier draft (as if that were the goal). Watch him fault Lovecraft for inserting the wrong words.But (you may ask) what is the difference? The back flap of this volume boasts of having corrected "hundreds of serious errors", and there are indeed hundreds of textual alterations, most of them trivial.One of the more noticeable changes involves spelling. The text as finalized by Lovecraft used standard modern American spellings: e.g. "show", "demon", "connection", "draft". But (you may object) didn't Lovecraft prefer his habitual Britishisms and archaisms, such as "shew", "daemon", "connexion", and "draught"? Not for this text he didn't. The narrator, Nathaniel Peaslee, is a modern American. The story emphasizes that he was a perfectly normal modern New Englander before abnormality struck him. He has no interest in poetry or archaism, and his profession, that of an "instructor of political economy" was the most boring and prosaic modern subject that Lovecraft could think of. He is not the sort of person who says "shew" and "daemon" and "draught". A review of the textual notes indicates that Lovecraft, though somewhat inconsistent, made an effort to use modern spellings (e.g. "show" and "demon") even in the early hand-penciled draft. Even in those cases Joshi insists on changing them to "shew" and "daemon".But what about the excised words that Joshi "restores"? Well, there are not very many, but in virtually all cases, these words are of such a nature as to tend to confirm the suspicion that Lovecraft edited them out on purpose. For instance, it adds nothing to the story to have Peaslee attend Miscatonic University as an undergraduate. If anything, it detracts from the point Peaslee is trying to emphasize - that he was completely normal dude from Haverhill, Massechussets, until he came to Miscatonic University as a teacher in 1895.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Glad It's Here, but No Surprises By Chris Jarocha-Ernst This is the definitive edition of "Shadow out of Time", based on the recently discovered typescript created by Robert H. Barlow in the 1930s from HPL's own manuscript copy. It's also been annotated by S. T. Joshi. However, there isn't anything substantially different from the previously available versions of "Time". There are minor changes in punctuation, spelling, and such, but that's all. This isn't like "At the Mountains of Madness", which had some 5,000 words excised from its manuscript when first published.That said, it's still one of HPL's best (THE best, in some eyes) stories and a worthwhile volume to have if, like me, you appreciate the annotations Joshi has been making to Lovecraft's work in recent years. If you don't have "Shadow out of Time" in any other edition, this is the edition to get.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Valueable for Any Lovecraft Fan By Randy Stafford While this story wouldn't be the entry I'd recommend to Lovecraft, it is definitely one of his major works. And this edition is worth reading for the beginning and hardcore fan.The editors' introduction details how long Lovecraft had been considering this story, his inspirations, and how he, as before in his great creative year of 1927, undertook a reading program to sharpen his style and improve his writing before starting it, his most science-fictional, tale. They also offer some intriguing observations about the specific dates in protagonist Peaslee's life and their significance to Lovecraft's.As to the annotations, it's not the largely unnecessary vocabulary lessons that Joshi and Schultz offer that are valueable, but how they point out similarities in motifs and language to other Lovecraft works, specific factual sources Lovecraft used, and the many links between this and other Cthulhu Mythos stories of Lovecraft and his friends. Even fans who have read this story more than once will probably learn something new in these notes.I can't say as I noticed any difference between the corrected text and earlier versions of the story, but then I didn't look at the appendix showing all the textual variations. But it's there for the really hardcore Lovecraft fan and scholar.
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