Electronic Text

• Read “The Shadow out of Time”.

Discussion Archives

• Read “The Shadow Over Usenet” Posts via Google Groups.

Images

• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “The Shadow out of Time” and has scans of the entire manuscript as well as scans of Lovecraft’s plot notes on the Brown Digital Repository.
• View the cover of the first appearance of “The Shadow out of Time” in Astounding Stories volume 17, number 4 (June 1936).

Articles

• BiblioFile—An article from Bibliofile, the Newsletter of the Brown University Library, describing how the manuscript of “The Shadow out of Time" was re-discovered.
• Mysterious Lovecraft Manuscript—An article from Among Friends, the Newsletter of the Friends of the Library of the Brown University, also describing the re-discovery of this manuscript.
• Hallowed Tale—And another version of the same tale from the Brown Alumni Monthly. Includes a photograph of Lovecraft at age 25.

Publication History

The following entries include the first publication of this work and any publications currently in print.

• Astounding Stories vol. 17, no. 4 (June 1936): 110–154.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 325–375.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [368]–433.
• Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. 275–328.
• The Shadow out of Time. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, [August] 2001. [31]–91.
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [August] 2004. [335]–395.
• Shadows of Death: Terrifying Tales. New York, NY: Del Rey, 2005. 1–73.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 719–783.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 555–606.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [948]–998.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 265–320.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of “Science Fiction”. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2011. 153–204.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [948]–998.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales that Truly Terrify from the Master of Horror. London, UK: Prion, 2012. 393–462.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 550–600.
• The Classic Horror Stories. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. [382]–443.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 520–572.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 711–778.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 1021–1074.
• The Shadow out of Time. Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, 2015. 3–90.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 3: 1931–1937. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 362–450.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 520–572.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 1021–1074.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [847]–895.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 540–594.
• The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [138]–209.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 681–732.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. New York, NY: Liveright, 2022. 283–357.
• The H. P. Lovecraft Experience. San Rafael, CA: Weldon Owen, 2025. II: 504–559.