H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time [Deluxe Edition, Digital Sound]

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Deluxe Edition, Digital Sound
• Label: Microcinema
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• ASIN: B001GGX3P6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening

2. Amnesla

3. The Great Race

4. Australia

5. Into the Dark

6. Closing

Editorial Reviews

"Had my body been the vehicle of an alien consciousness from palaeogean gulfs of time?" Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio in the 1930s. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and our own At the Mountains of Madness and The Dunwich Horror, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Journey across the globe and back in time with Lovecraft's last major story: The Shadow Out of Time. In addition to the full 77 minute radio drama on CD, you'll get these carefully made props from the story to enhance your listening experience: * A clipping from a 1908 copy of the Arkham Advertiser describing Professor Peaslee's collapse during a lecture at Miskatonic. * An article from the British Medical Journal describing Peaslee's amnesia and strange dreams, including a sketch of the Great Race's architecture. * An urgent ship-to-shore Marconigram sent to Peaselee aboard the HMS Empress. * A page from Von Juntz's Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten revealing secrets of Yithian technology with Peaselee's hieroglyphic annotations. And of course it's beautifully produced and packaged with the same deranged attention to detail that you'll find in other HPLHS products.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio Drama Done Right, December 4, 2008

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RJDiogenes "Idealistic Cynic" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time (Audio CD)

The Lovecraft Historical Society has done it again-- The Shadow Out Of Time is a wonderful adaptation of classic Lovecraft. Like its two predecessors, it's done in the style of the old radio shows that I love; it's a show that should have existed called Dark Adventure Radio Theater. These HPLHS guys are so good at this I wish they could do it on a weekly basis. Certainly one of the multitude of channels on Sirius or XM has room for a program like this. Ah, but I digress. The Shadow Out Of Time is a very faithful adaption of the original story-- at 77 minutes long, nothing is left out (that I noticed) and only minor changes were made to bring HPL's prose off the page and into the mouths of the actors for the sake of the dramatization. Neither vocabulary nor syntax has been sacrificed in this labor of love; everything is 100% Lovecraft. If you're a fan of either HPL or Old Radio Shows, or both, you will love this CD (and its myriad of enclosures, such as a newspaper clipping, a page torn from a British medical journal et cetera). In fact, if you haven't already done so, I recommend that you also get the previous two Dark Adventures and HPLHS's silent-movie adaption of Call Of Cthulhu as well. Great stuff!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Always a Good Listen, December 9, 2009

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Lesser Knowns (San Mateo, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time (Audio CD)

Length:: 2:25 Mins

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre continues to impress me with their horrific tales. If you loved one of the stories, you'll love them all. Start the collection already! They are always a fun treat to entertain in groups, but listen to them alone if you dare!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is what cosmic horror sounds like, October 9, 2008

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J. W. Zorn (Chehalis, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time (Audio CD)

Another triumph for the H.P. Lovecraft Society's Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, this audio drama in the style of Old Time Radio succeeds beyond even my high expectations. This is a genuinely frightening adaptation of one of Lovecraft's greatest science fiction-horror tales.

The story is expanded a bit, dramatizing parts that, in the original tale, were only alluded to. The voice actors are very convincing, the musical soundtrack is excellent, and the sound effects are truly startling. When the human minds in Yithian bodies communicate, the sound effects are disorienting and unsettling. The sounds of the Flying Polyps made my skin crawl.

Put simply, no Lovecraft collection is complete without the works of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and this chilling audio drama is no exception.