I’m not laughing! That was a treat to watch. The use of shadows is beautiful. STANDS THE TEST OF TIME! Thanks for sharing.

“The Outsider” was the first Lovecraft story I ever read, in some horror collection that I found in my college library when I was a freshman. I liked it enough that I sought out other Lovecraft stories, and I was soon hooked. Maybe if I had read his later, “cosmic” stories first, I would have a lower regard for this more “backward-looking” one, but as my introduction to Lovecraft, it has always been among my favorites.

Agreed. I’m eager to listen to more episodes of Black Mass. Bauersfeld adapts a number of classic M.R. James stories. Like Lovecraft, James was criminally neglected by the golden age of radio. “Casting the Runes” is the only major American radio adaptation I’ve discovered.