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{{simplequote|(…) immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of their four limbs.|The Shadow Out of Time}} | {{simplequote|(…) immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of their four limbs.|The Shadow Out of Time}} | ||
While he was working on the manuscript, which was illustrated by hand with eldritch symbols and drawings of the aliens, Lovecraft found himself flung forwards in time to by a mysterious [[Orb (Guardian At The | While he was working on the manuscript, which was illustrated by hand with eldritch symbols and drawings of the aliens, Lovecraft found himself flung forwards in time to by a mysterious [[Orb (Guardian At The Gate)|orb]]. After getting glimpses of many eldritch beings, including the very race he had described in the book, he found himself emerging in [[2023]] [[London]], where, acting on a [[Guardian of the Gate]] gut instinct, he gave the manuscript to [[Giles]] so that he and [[P.R.O.B.E.]] could deal with the threat of the "eternal race". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Guardian At The Gate (audio story)|Guardian At The Gate]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Revision as of 17:36, 7 June 2023
The Shadow Out of Time was one of H. P. Lovecraft's stories.
It described a parasitic, "eternal" alien race who had the ability to fling their essence through time and slowly take over the bodies of other races from the inside. A direct book described them as:
While he was working on the manuscript, which was illustrated by hand with eldritch symbols and drawings of the aliens, Lovecraft found himself flung forwards in time to by a mysterious orb. After getting glimpses of many eldritch beings, including the very race he had described in the book, he found himself emerging in 2023 London, where, acting on a Guardian of the Gate gut instinct, he gave the manuscript to Giles so that he and P.R.O.B.E. could deal with the threat of the "eternal race". (AUDIO: Guardian At The Gate)
Behind the scenes
The quote read by Giles is an actual quote from the 1936 real-world novella The Shadow Out of Time, although "at the end of two of their four limbs" is simplified to "at the end of their four limbs", a discrepancy presumably accounted for by the version quoted in Guardian At The Gate explicitly being a handwritten first draft, rather than the published version.
