Our Listener Library series is being put on hold this week because the Society is celebrating the birthday of H.P. Lovecraft by listening to his story “The Dunwich Horror” as adapted by Suspense! (If you are a fan of the man, might we suggest checking out the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival?) Dark sorcery is underway in the wild hills of rural New England! Can Professor Armitage thwart this profane invocation of Yog-Sothoth? Why is Wilbur Whateley so determined to acquire the accursed Necronomicon? Is this just a bunch of gibberish designed to confuse Eric? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think:
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This was enjoyable enough but as an HPL fan, I thought it was pretty flawed. I prefer the modern radio drama adaptations of Lovecraft’s work produced by the HPL Historical Society.
The Historical Society definitely does amazing stuff! (For anyone else reading this, here’s a link to their phenomenal work!)
Excellent! A title to save for next year’s celebration of Lovecraft’s birthday! Many thanks! I can’t say as I have an explanation for the pronunciation. A quirk of New England dialects that never got conveyed to a broader readership? One person said it wrong once and everyone assumed that this individual knew something everyone else didn’t? As for the thought of Orson Welles in this role instead of Colman, well that’s an exciting prospect! (I doubt that Mr. Welles would rush through any exposition.)
I’ve never seen any evidence, but I’ve always suspected that the radio script was originally intended for Orson Welles. He would have been a better choice than Ronald Colman. The “meta” aspect would have been appropriate for his star persona and was used in his earlier SUSPENSE appearances (e. g. “The Lost Special,” “The Marvelous Barastro”).
There’s a 1965 version of Lovecraft’s “The Outsider” from KPFA’s THE BLACK MASS series.
Incidentally, why is Dunwich pronounced Dunnitch in the radio play and Dun-witch by the podcasters?
This one would be notable enough for being an early—and surprisingly faithful—Lovecraft adaptation, but then it marvelously goes all “War of the Worlds” at the climax! It’s funny, because so much of Lovecraft is about men being driven mad by the true nature of things, and here they were *broadcasting* the arrival of Yog-Sothoth into their audience’s plane of existence!