Audio Props: Pulp Cthulhu

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Bump up the fun in your table top role playing games with the HPLHS' new line collection of Audio Props. For years we've been creating detailed props to enhance realism and drama in games. Now, we've combined our expertise with props with our expertise in audio to create Audio Props you can share with your players.

We've taken Chaosium's Pulp Cthulhu rulebook and rendered many props and handouts into audio files. This collection features eleven files, recorded by professional voice over actors with music and sound effects, dramatizing elements from The Disintegrator and Pandora's Box. You'll hear the sounds of two-fisted Lovecraftian gaming as these great props come to life.

This collection contains 11 props, with a total length of around 16 minutes.

Pulp Cthulhu rule book not included.

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Incredible props made in loving detail, one could think they are the real thing. Also the packaging looking like boxes from various museums getting dusty in forgotten shelves labeled by their archeological discoverer or museum curator… you guys are the best!

Crushes It!

“The Venus of Ille” seems a curious tale to rework into a DART production, as while mentioned twice in-passing in Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” discussion, it’s not especially highlighted there with other notes. Perhaps it was a little too earthy for Lovecraft’s taste. It certainly comes across that way in this adaptation, true to the original, albeit not in an overtly offensive manner. As usual, the DART team brings the whole to life (appropriately!) in excellent style, perhaps with nods to Tim Burton’s animated movie “The Corpse Bride” in a few elements (including the characterisation of the bridegroom’s mother), if elements hard to disentangle from the various earlier tropes involved, including the central statue-comes-to-life motif from long before Prosper Mérimée’s story was penned. The accompanying props add to the experience nicely. Semi-pictorial postcard maps like that of Wight can be bought still at seaside towns across the UK, and the illustrations of Brading Villa’s Roman mosaics, including fish-tailed humans, opens-up archaeological vistas stretching back to early second millennium BCE Babylonia, should the HPLHS feel inclined to dig deeper. It’s not just the tennis that’s real here! While not strongly Lovecraftian, this remains a real treat for fans of 1930s-style radio shows in the DART mould.

Deep Desert Dangers Discovered!

A cleverly-devised pulp adventure created by the HPLHS, based on a chance remark in a Lovecraft letter, combined with a relatively obscure site in the Libyan Desert just west of the great Qattara Depression in western modern Egypt, the Siwa Oasis. The place was rather less obscure in ancient times (the Romans knew it as Ammonium), and a route across the northern desert still passes through it that originated far earlier. The props with the physical DART production define Siwa well, and the leading character of Count De Prorok, a fictionalised, genuine explorer and treasure-hunter. The large, beautifully-drawn, map of Siwa, reproduced from a 1929 original, is a particular delight. While the tale starts a little slowly, that allows it to build nicely in stages of discovery to the final climax, providing much useful atmosphere concerning the dangers of desert travel and the political realities in the region during the later 1920s and 1930s. Parts of the latter stages of the action become a little confused, and bear repeated, careful listening to straighten out more - although perhaps it’s better not to peer too closely at sanity-threatening Things Lovecraftian! All-in-all, a fine addition to the DART repertoire.

Extended Pulp-Horror With Relish!

Used to converting Lovecraftian items from one medium to another, here the DART team tackles reworking a Chaosium role-playing scenario into one of their classic audio productions. Done with their usual élan, the tale is more pulp horror action than cerebral cosmic horror, which makes it an easier fit to a 1920s-30s style radio show than some of Lovecraft’s own stories, including having a larger, more diverse, set of characters. If the plot is sometimes a trifle thin, that’s generally concealed by the pacing and action. I did feel it might have worked better if framed as three separate DART episodes, in 1920s-30s radio serial fashion (to fit the CD version and its cover note). It’s somewhat disjointed without such linking, especially the multiple-endings option. That latter’s a nice, game-related, touch, certainly, if maybe needing a little more variety in what happens to the characters in each. Sadly, I missed the version with the extensive set of physical props, unavailable since about 2019, and the current props, while useful, might benefit from an extra map or two at least, for those without access to the original Chaosium scenario. These are quite minor points, however, easily distracted from by the excellence (as expected) of this quality ensemble dramatization.

Audio Props: Pulp Cthulhu

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