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Title: The Shadow Out of Time
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrator: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-31-11
Publisher: FNH Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecrafts The Shadow Out of Time.
Professor Nathaniel Wingate is mad, or was mad, or is becoming mad and he doesn't know which. A few years ago he feinted and woke up a different person, years later after a second feint he was himself again. He had no memory of the time between the feints, and began an investigation into his own actions during that time. What he found was inexplicable and horrifying. His investigation that would lead to revelation and a horror that would shake his mind, and set the future of mankind.
The Shadow out of time was written in 1935 and was first published in the June 1936 edition of Astounding Stories magazine. It has become a classic of Science Fiction Horror and often cited as one of Lovecraft's finest works.
Members Reviews:
Valueable for Any Lovecraft Fan
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.
DO NOT BUY THIS EBOOK!!!!! Give it a 1/4 star.
I bought this ebook because I love Lovecraft and I had never read this particular story before. Unfortunately, I should have bought the Halycon edition rather than this version. This version was done by some Italian company, obviously with no native English speakers on staff. This problem was made obvious in the company's introduction to the book, which was nearly incomprehensible in its broken English. This ebook looks like it was formatted using a ball peen hammer by someone heavily into drugs. One example I found particularly annoying, "building" comes out "buldmg" in some spots, and some words I figured out by the context of the sentence. There are numerous examples of these types of error on every page. Occasionally, a sentence would stop in the middle of a thought and disappear, leaving you perplexed as to what was meant. In addition, the formatting obviously was not meant for the Kindle, with sentence breaks scattered randomly so you end up with a three-word line. Perhaps they used an old OCR program, designed for Italian, to scan an English document???
It was so annoying that this is the very first ebook that I have EVER returned to Amazon.
