- Inception
- February 1935
- Publication date
- June 1936
- first line
- After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of July 17–18, 1935.
- last line
- They were, instead, the letters of our familiar alphabet, spelling out the words of the English language in my own handwriting.
- title
- The Shadow Out of Time