Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Encyclopedia
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Over Innsmouth is an radio drama
performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
, and based on the novella
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
by H. P. Lovecraft
. It was released in December 2008.
selections, it will be under 80 minutes long, the length of an audio CD
. According to the website, "we look some liberties with the end of the story in an attempt to have it end with a bit more of a bang than the original story does." In addition, the central character of Robert Olmstead, instead of simply retelling the story, will recount it under interrogation by an FBI
agent.
Troy Sterling Nies composed an original score, as with the other H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society productions.
The CD version includes: a postcard from the Newburyport Historical Society featuring the Innsmouth Tiara, a page from the New York Evening Graphic about the G-Men raid on Innsmouth, a scratch-n-sniff map of Innsmouth drawn on a piece of First National Grocery wrapping paper, and a book of matches from the Gilman House Hotel.
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society or HPLHS is the organization that hosts Cthulhu Lives!, a group of live-action roleplayers for the Cthulhu Live version of Call of Cthulhu. Founded in Colorado in 1984, it is now based in Glendale, California...
, and based on the novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical....
by H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
. It was released in December 2008.
Production
Like the other Dark Adventure Radio TheatreDark Adventure Radio Theatre
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre is a series of radio dramas produced by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. They are produced in the style of the 1930s, with "Dark Adventure Radio Theatre" being a Mercury Theatre-type production hosted by Chester Langfield and sponsored by Fleur-de-Lis Cigarettes...
selections, it will be under 80 minutes long, the length of an audio CD
Red Book (audio CD standard)
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. According to the website, "we look some liberties with the end of the story in an attempt to have it end with a bit more of a bang than the original story does." In addition, the central character of Robert Olmstead, instead of simply retelling the story, will recount it under interrogation by an FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
agent.
Troy Sterling Nies composed an original score, as with the other H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society productions.
The CD version includes: a postcard from the Newburyport Historical Society featuring the Innsmouth Tiara, a page from the New York Evening Graphic about the G-Men raid on Innsmouth, a scratch-n-sniff map of Innsmouth drawn on a piece of First National Grocery wrapping paper, and a book of matches from the Gilman House Hotel.