Out of Time (The Rolling Stones song) recording appeared in the US on 1967’s "Flowers", and later on 1972’s "More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)" and 2012’s "GRRR!" super deluxe edition. The song also appeared on the Stones' 1975 ABKCO album "Metamorphosis", which was created under the direction of former Stones manager Allen Klein and released on his ABKCO Records label. (Klein owned the rights to the pre-1971 Rolling Stones catalog.). This version was, in fact, the backing track from Chris Farlowe's version, but with a Mick Jagger lead vocal, recorded in London in April 1966 as a demo for Farlowe. The demo version was
The Shadow Out of Time and through time and space across the universe. It is not known whether Lovecraft was aware of this. Lovecraft critic Lin Carter calls "The Shadow Out of Time" Lovecraft's "single greatest achievement in fiction", citing "its amazing scope and sense of cosmic immensitude, the gulfs of time it opens, [and] the titanic sweep of the narrative", while horror author and critic Ramsey Campbell describes it as "awe-inspiring". Lovecraft himself was dissatisfied with the effort, so much so that he mailed the original manuscript to August Derleth without taking a copy for himself. The Shadow Out of Time The Shadow Out