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H. P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time. (~ 1936)

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Kindle. Inevitable after Yilkari (2025). The story goes as the summaries have it. It's written in a very discursive style with an irritating iterative-deepening structure. I didn't get any grip on the horror angle as it is all innuendo; I was more frightened that Lovecraft was going to take as many pages to get out as he took to get in. The epistemics are highly dodgy (it was all a dream) and the time travel aspect not very baked. I wonder why he picked that location in the Pilbara (spelt "Pilbarra" in the text I had) as the site of the happenings.