The stage is set, the cards have been dealt. He is now no more than a puppet in the shadow of his own destiny.

We are on the third episode of our coverage of The Shadow Out of Time by

H.P. Lumpcraft. I'm Chad Pfeiffer. And I'm Chris Lackey and you are listening to the

H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast at H.P. podcraft.com.

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I've had a dream that was really disturbing to me.

I don't know if this is something that you've had experiences.

You know know our protagonist

Nathaniel Peasley is having these dreams of the past where he thinks they're

dreams of the past that he he was psychically transported into an alien body in Earth's prehistory.

Yeah, yeah.

I had a dream last night that I'd left a baby named Peter in a car.

I have a baby myself, but his name's Albert. His name's not Peter.

So this was a totally different baby. It's a totally different baby and I don't know if you've had this but the dream starts where I wake up in the morning and go where's baby Peter and then oh my God he's in the car I left him in the car so you have absolutely no control over it's not like I made a mistake

The thing has already happened.

But the fear was there.

Yeah, oh my God, I was horrified and he was.

He was that I left the baby in the car.

He was fine.

You know, and then I felt horrible and I was so upset.

Power, I was so powerless in that dream because I didn't even get a chance to make a mistake

I was dealing with the repercussions of a mistake that didn't even really exist.

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