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Shadows Out of Time

short horror stories series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ126415693 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shadows Out of Time is an anthology of original horror short stories edited by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by PS Publishing and in trade paperback by PS Publishing's paperback imprint Drugstore Indian Press in January 2023.

Summary

The book collects seventeen short stories by various authors, with an introduction by the editor. All, per the editor's prompt, are inspired by the theme H. P. Lovecraft regarded as "the most potent and fruitful theme in all human expression," conflict with time.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Shadows, Time and short is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Shadows Out of Time” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.