Miskatonic Arcihves

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Entities & creatures

Flying polyps

The flying polyps are the partly material alien beings imprisoned beneath the Great Race’s cities in The Shadow out of Time. Their inaccessible minds, control of destructive winds and eventual return establish a threat that even the Great Race’s extraordinary knowledge cannot permanently remove.

4 min read · 818 words

Entities & creatures

Great Race of Yith

The Great Race of Yith is a civilization whose most capable minds investigate and survive across immense spans of time by exchanging bodies with other intelligent beings. The Shadow out of Time presents its libraries, institutions and migrations through Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee’s recovered experiences and the ruins he explores in Australia.

10 min read · 2,031 words

Characters

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is the Miskatonic economist and narrator of The Shadow Out of Time. A five-year interruption of his normal personality destroys his family life and leads him into the study of dreams, memory and the Great Race. His 1935 expedition to Western Australia seems to confirm that his missing years were spent in a prehuman body, but the loss of material proof leaves him hoping that the experience was unreal.

7 min read · 1,339 words

Literature

The Shadow out of Time

An economics professor loses five years of ordinary memory while his body pursues inexplicable studies and journeys. Dreams of an alien archive later draw him to Australia, where the object he most fears to find would make his private past part of a civilization millions of years older than humanity.

12 min read · 2,338 words