Comments on: Episode 47: The Dunwich Horror

By: David Thiel

David Thiel — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:48:21 +0000

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!

By: Tim Uren

Tim Uren — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:59:45 +0000

In reply to Tim Uren. 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.)

By: Tim Uren

Tim Uren — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:48:53 +0000

In reply to David Feldmann. The Historical Society definitely does amazing stuff! (For anyone else reading this, here's a link to their phenomenal work!)

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:53:24 +0000

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?

By: David Feldmann

David Feldmann — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:26:26 +0000

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.