of my family who stuck to me after my queer amnesia of long ago, and the man best informed on the inner facts of my case." William Dyer: A Miskatonic University geology professor who accompanies the expedition to Australia. See At the Mountains of Madness. The story mentions a number of victims of the Yithians' mind-swapping whom Nathaniel Peaslee recalls talking with, including: Titus Sempronius Blaesus: A Roman "who had been a quaestor in Sulla's time". Sulla first became Consul in 88 B.C. and was dictator of Rome 82-80 B.C. A quaestor was a Roman financial official; Sulla reformed the office and raised their number from ten to twenty. Bartolomeo Corsi: A "12th century Florentine monk". This character also appears in Phillip O. Marsh's 1994 novel The Worm Shall Ye Fight! Crom-Ya: A Cimmerian chief who lived c. 15,000 B.C. This is a homage to Lovecraft's friend Robert E. Howard, whose best-known creation, Conan the Barbarian, hailed from Cimmeria and worshipped Crom. In Fred L. Pelton's 1989 short story "The Sussex Manuscript", Crom-Ya is said to be a worshipper of Tsathoggua. Khephnes: "An Egyptian of the 14th Dynasty, who told me the hideous secret of Nyarlathotep". The 14th dynasty was about 1700 B.C. Nevil Kingston-Brown: An "Australian physicist...who will die in 2518 A.D." Pierre-Louis Montagny: "An aged Frenchman of Louis XIII's time". Louis XIII was king of France from 1610 to 1643. Nug-Soth: "A magician of the dark conquerors of 16,000 A.D." S'gg'ha: A being from "the Star-headed vegetable carnivores of Antarctica." Theodotides: A Greco-Bactrian official of 200 B.C. James Woodville: "A Suffolk gentleman of Cromwell's day". Cromwell lived from 1599 to 1658, and was the English head of state from 1653 until his death. Yiang-Li: "A philosopher from the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan, which is to come in 5,000 A.D." Tsan-Chan is first mentioned by Lovecraft in the story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Inspiration S. T. Joshi points to Berkeley Square, a 1933 fantasy film, as an inspiration for The Shadow Out of Time: "Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933; its portrayal of a man of the 20th century who somehow merges his personality with that of his 18th-century ancestor was clearly something that fired Lovecraft's imagination, since he had written a story on this very theme himself—the then unpublished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)." Lovecraft called the film "the most weirdly perfect