Lost Carcosa

The fine people behind “The Scaryfiers” adventure audio dramas have put out another adventure, “For King and Country”, their third so far, for all of us to purchase and enjoy.  I bought and most thouroughly enjoyed “The Nazad Conspiracy” and “The Devil of Denge Marsh”, and I’m certain, that I will enjoy “For King and Country” just the same. 

‘Sir’ Harry Price, self-proclaimed ghost detective, has built a machine. His previous experiment - to turn a goat into a man - may have ended ignominiously, but now Harry plans to capture the spirits of the dead with his Price Ghost Captivator™. If he can make it work, that is.

Meanwhile, Londoners are being killed, in especially gruesome fashion, with their own electrical appliances. But most puzzling of all is the Faraday Murderer’s habit of leaving cryptic messages in 17th century English at the scene - cryptic messages that mention a certain Harry Price…

Age-old forces are stirring… The dead will rise… The Crown will fall. Can Lionheart and Dunning save King and Country?

If you havn’t checked out “The Scaryfiers” just yet, head over to Cosmic Hobo Productions and listen to the trailers!

For King and Country!

I really can’t say why, but H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing in the Moonlight” story fragment is one of my favorite pieces he wrote, and its not even a full story!  In fact, I liked it enough to do a comic adaptation of it not long ago.

Well, it looks like Jesse Willis of SFFAudio, in the unending search for new audio, has found an audio reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing in the Moonlight”.  You can find it linked there along with an audio version of “Dagon”.

SFFAudio: The Thing in the Moonlight

SFFAudio, a great source for good audio, has a few links to Lovecraftian audio.

First, they have a reading of Despair, and another of “Herbert West: Reanimator”, both read by Marlo Dianne. You can find both here.

The second is a lecture by S.T. Joshi, entitled “Reflections on Lovecraft”. You can find this one here.

After eight years away, Forma Tadre gives us “The Music of Erich Zann”, an album based on the Lovecraft story of the same name.  It will be available January 19th for download from the iTunes store only.

I might have to check this one out.  “The Music of Erich Zann” has always been one of my favorite HPL stories.  Speaking of which, you can also find an excellent reading by Finlay Patterson of Yog-Sothoth.com fame.

Found via Side-Line

If you’re like me, you like audio dramas of super heroes and horror. You’ll like serious ones, comedic ones, and of course, the always cool sounding British accents. It’ll also tickle your fancy to know that two of the actors, Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy played the Doctor Who characters The Brigadier and Davros, respectively.

The Nazad Conspiracy is a light hearted and playful romp through a horrific situation involving horrific creatures, magic, and spirits returning from the dead. Its rather like a Call of Cthulhu game scenario told as a story, actually. If you don’t like constant humor in your tales of magical horror, then this might not be for you. If you like the comedy of a fun Doctor Who episode, then give this one a try.

The only problems I could find was a moment where I thought maybe the sound effects overpowered the mood (but only briefly and quickly forgotten), and that it just wasn’t long enough. When you get caught up in a story, it can go by quickly, and this just seemed over too soon.

It was fun and enjoyable, and well worth the purchase. You can make said purchase for the downloadable mp3 version (with pdf CD booklet and covers) at Lovecraftiana.com, Yog-Sothoth.com’s online web store.

The Atlanta Radio Theater Company has up a 5 part audio recording of HP Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth.  You can find direct links and a link for the ARTC podcast feed over at SFFAudio.

In honor of the 70th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft’s death, SFFAudio has some links to some HPL audio posted up from Zombie Astronaut.  Yeay!

Go download some audio at SFFAudio!

Heck!  Go check out Zombie Astronaut while you’re at it!

I’m a little late in posting this, but SFFAudio has a good review of the audio book adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West: Re-Animator”.

Jeffrey Combs Reads H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West Re-Animator will make you become, like West, utterly fascinated by the desire to know what will happen in the next experiment. What will the dead have to say? Can death truly be conquered? As the unnamed narrator puts it - “I, myself, still held some curious notions about the traditional ’soul’ of man, and felt an awe at the secrets that might be told by one returning from the dead.”

Check out the rest of the review at SFFAudio.com