Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® - The Shadow Out of Time

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The episode follows the original story really well. I love how the HPLHS adds conversation to characters that were silent. Super fun, great props!

Liked the depiction of the characters and soundtrack. This adaptation added a lot of depth to the story and the characters were well portrayed.

Never ones to shy from a challenge, the HPLHS’ DART team here present a lively adaptation of one of Lovecraft’s longer tales, whose original was almost all straightforward narration. Naturally, changes were made, though none of those detract from the presentation, and indeed elements such as giving Professor Dyer a little more to do than Lovecraft allowed, seem a distinct improvement on the story in places. That story to me always struggled in the shadow of being a loose reprise-variant of “At the Mountains of Madness”, with which it shares perhaps too much, besides the presence of Prof. Dyer. This DART adaptation makes “The Shadow Out of Time” more distinctive, even if occasional segments of the exposition remain too much like narration. While the period props, as always, add to the overall experience of the audio production, and are excellently prepared, the Marconigram might have been better replaced by a period map of NW Australia for help in orientation. The page from Von Juntz’s treatise in black-letter German helpfully has two English versions available for free download on the HPLHS website, albeit neither translates the handwritten additions in German, unfortunately. Peaslee’s sketch of the Great Ones’ city from the BMJ, while illustrating the difficulties in Lovecraft’s choice of curved stones to construct it, should have had rounded windows, not squared ones. These though are quite minor concerns, more than compensated by the general excellence of the audio.

I bought The Shadow Out Of Time - (DART version) a week or two ago.
This was my very first DART purchase.
I have to say, I was stunned by how compelling it was!
I found this more enjoyable than I would imagine a motion picture version of it would be.
Although I have enjoyed reading Lovecraft for many years, I found the radio show performance to be completely captivating.
The Props make the purchase even more enjoyable.
I placed another order for two more titles yesterday. I can't wait to listen to them!