Product Description

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio during his lifetime. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and our own At the Mountains of Madness, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Relive the excitement of 1930s radio with one of the most popular tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: The Dunwich Horror. The Whateleys are a strange, secretive family, dabbling in black magic in the hills of rural Massachusetts. Their unholy rituals give rise to an otherworldly entity capable of wiping mankind from the earth. Can a few brave scholars from Miskatonic University endure madness and horror to thwart the occult peril of The Dunwich Horror? Further Information: CD Extras: the CD packaging includes carefully made props from the story to enhance your listening experience: a clipping from a 1917 copy of the Arkham Advertiser, a vintage map of Dunwich, Sentinel Hill and the surrounding region, a page from Wilbur Whateley's diary with its bizarre occult cipher, a replica of a key page from the Whateleys' copy of John Dee's Necronomicon

Track Listing

1. Opening
2. Wilbur
3. Horror
4. Armitage
5. Sentinel Hill
6. Closing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62430 in Music
• Published on: 2008
• Released on: 2008-11-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Deluxe Edition, Digital Sound
• Running time: 74 minutes

Customer Reviews

IÄ IÄ YOG SOTHOTH!

The HPLHS Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presentation of The Dunwich Horror is Brilliant!

I am an avid Lovecraft fan and to put his stories to script are extremely difficult, as many lovecraftophiles know however; the HPLHS has done it again with this eldritch production. The pacing is perfect for that OTR feel, the actors do a great job of making you feel that you are really there in Dunwich as the Whateley Family (Decayed) engage in their bizarre rites and doings atop Sentinel Hill.

The goodies keep coming with the "props" that are included such as:
A map of Dunwich
A page of the dreaded Necronomicon
A passage from Whateley's diary

These guys pull out all the stops on this, one of Lovecraft's best stories.

BRAVO!!!

IÄ IÄ YOG SOTHOTH!!

Great days of radio style & Lovercraft joy!
Picked this up for a road trip (along with the other release). Great Lovecraft story done well in the style of 30s radio dramatization. Creepy and well told. Lovecraft stories are notoriously hard to put into scripted drama, but these radio styled performances have done it quite well, and not surprising, it is done by the Lovecraft guild (or whatever the group is called). I think these people also did the fantastic silent film "Call of Cthulhu" that recently came out). Well done!

Another gem from Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society scores another success with their retro-style entertainment. This follow-up to their audio play 'At The Mountains Of Madness' is further proof that the HPLHS is the yardstick for adapting the works of Lovecraft to other media.

Once again capturing the feel of OTR plays, this CD is a must-have for Lovecraft fans. From the genuinely frightening performance of the story to the extras in the CD case (a map of Dunwich, a page from The Necronomicon, and newspaper clipping), 'The Dunwich Horror' by Dark Adventure Theatre is a five-star masterpiece.

The HPLHS is prepared to release another 'Dark Adventure Theatre' production, this one an adaptation of Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Out of Time'. I, for one, can hardly wait.