Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® - Dagon: War of Worlds

This is my current favorite of the series. Loved how the group intertwined this story with others in the mythos. I really enjoyed listening to this and had me wondering where it would lead next. The music was great and sound effects really give this one realism.

Come and listen to this. It's an amazing story with some really cool liberties taken. I had a blast listening to this one. The props are really awesome and if you want some extra fun get the newspaper prop too.

I have not listened to an audio telling of a story since childhood, tens of years ago, and sat in darkness listening to this show. It was really good. I think I've lost a part of my imagination since childhood, which is likely due to Hollywood films and video games adding it all for you, and leaving nothing left. I thought this was a great show. Everyone involved with it must have had a great time and feel very proud of creating something like this. The only thing I'd say is that perhaps I should have listened to The Shadow Over Innsmouth first, then followed on with this show as it carries on from that prior story.

There is something particularly captivating about the whole Innsmouth setting from Lovecraft’s writings, and especially the folk from there, which continue to draw the attention of authors. This may be because unusually for Lovecraft, a broader swathe of humanity is involved than the typical lone or few protagonists in others of his tales, as well as creatures that are sufficiently human to be destroyed by physical means. In presenting this greatly reworked expansion of “Dagon”, the HPLHS has drawn too on aspects from “The Temple”, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “The Call of Cthulhu”, along with elements introduced in other DART presentations, pulling them together in a fascinatingly enjoyable, pulp-style, whole, under the heavy influence of Orson Welles’ 1938 Hallowe’en revision of H. G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”. If the various radio communications are stitched together perhaps a little too readily for a genuine “live” 1935 radio show, and the resolutions are achieved maybe a trifle too easily, those are certainly forgivable in the name of entertainment. As always, the props that accompany the CD version add to the impact of the whole, although for fuller immersion - plus maps, and an image of the “missing” photo of Robert Olmstead - the separate “Dagon Newspaper” prop is an essential adjunct to the audio production. They thought it would be fun. They were right!

I really enjoy every DART I've heard, but this one goes above and beyond! So far only heard the download, but can't wait for the props to arrive with the physical copy.