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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time
Genres: Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Opening
2. Amnesla
3. The Great Race
4. Australia
5. Into the Dark
6. Closing

CD Details

All Artists: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
Title: H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Microcinema
Release Date: 10/27/2009
Album Type: Deluxe Edition, Digital Sound
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Comedy & Spoken Word, Experimental Music, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 895741001023

Synopsis

Product Description

"Had my body been the vehicle of an alien consciousness from palaeogean gulfs of time?" Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time brings legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio in the 1930s. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and our own At the Mountains of Madness and The Dunwich Horror, this production by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society dramatizes Lovecraft 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). Journey across the globe and through strange aeons with Lovecraft's last major story: 'The Shadow Out of Time'.

CD Reviews

Audio Drama Done Right

RJDiogenes | Boston, MA | 12/04/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Lovecraft Historical Society has done it again-- The Shadow Out Of Time is a wonderful adaptation of classic Lovecraft. Like its two predecessors, it's done in the style of the old radio shows that I love; it's a show that should have existed called Dark Adventure Radio Theater. These HPLHS guys are so good at this I wish they could do it on a weekly basis. Certainly one of the multitude of channels on Sirius or XM has room for a program like this. Ah, but I digress. The Shadow Out Of Time is a very faithful adaption of the original story-- at 77 minutes long, nothing is left out (that I noticed) and only minor changes were made to bring HPL's prose off the page and into the mouths of the actors for the sake of the dramatization. Neither vocabulary nor syntax has been sacrificed in this labor of love; everything is 100% Lovecraft. If you're a fan of either HPL or Old Radio Shows, or both, you will love this CD (and its myriad of enclosures, such as a newspaper clipping, a page torn from a British medical journal et cetera). In fact, if you haven't already done so, I recommend that you also get the previous two Dark Adventures and HPLHS's silent-movie adaption of Call Of Cthulhu as well. Great stuff!"

This is what cosmic horror sounds like

J. W. Zorn | Chehalis, WA | 10/10/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Another triumph for the H.P. Lovecraft Society's Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, this audio drama in the style of Old Time Radio succeeds beyond even my high expectations. This is a genuinely frightening adaptation of one of Lovecraft's greatest science fiction-horror tales.

The story is expanded a bit, dramatizing parts that, in the original tale, were only alluded to. The voice actors are very convincing, the musical soundtrack is excellent, and the sound effects are truly startling. When the human minds in Yithian bodies communicate, the sound effects are disorienting and unsettling. The sounds of the Flying Polyps made my skin crawl.

Put simply, no Lovecraft collection is complete without the works of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and this chilling audio drama is no exception."