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A strange case of amnesia strikes down a university professor: Five years of his life vanish under a mysterious cloud. He recovers and embarks on an investigation to piece together his strange activities and nefarious associations while afflicted.

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.

Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, first published in the June 1936 edition of Astounding Stories, follows Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who suffers a sudden mental collapse in 1908, losing his memory for five years. During this period, his body is controlled by an unknown intelligence while his own consciousness experiences life in a vast prehistoric era, housed within the body of a member of the Great Race of Yith—an ancient, time-traveling alien species that exchanges minds with beings across time to gather knowledge.

The Shadow out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. 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.