"The Brotherhood calls forth their gods and they answer. Mankind is
given the choice to join them, or perish."
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre®: The Brotherhood of the Beast is an epic tale of globe-trotting adventure inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, presented as a 1930s-style radio drama. Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® presents the tale with our largest cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies. Click for more information about our other Lovecraft stories in the Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® series. They're like movies you can enjoy with your eyes closed.
Like many Lovecraft fans, we played Chaosium's celebrated role playing game Call of Cthulhu®. Now, with the permission of Chaosium, we've adapted one of their most thrilling game supplements — Keith Herber's The Fungi From Yuggoth — into a fully dramatized 3 disc super episode of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre®.
A consultation in a Boston child-murder case leads Professor Nathaniel Ward and his adventurous colleague Charlie Tower into an investigation of a group called The Brotherhood of the Beast. They follow a trail which takes them across the world as they struggle valiantly to thwart the plans of a doomsday cult insidiously plotting the demise of mankind. Can the Brotherhood be stopped, or has an ancient prophecy accurately foretold the end of days?
The Brotherhood of the Beast is an epic adventure, filling three CDs. Inspired by the game upon which it is based, this episode features four different endings! Follow the plan of your favorite character first, and then see how the others work out. All endings are included with all versions of the show. Like all Dark Adventure episodes, the CD version includes collection of props to enhance your listening experience. They include:
- an article from the Boston Globe about the child murders
- a very strange horoscope
- an urgent telegram from Budapest
- a brochure for a factory tour of a very strange facility
All of these great extras are complemented by the fantastic artwork of illustrator Darrell Tutchton in the style you've come to know and love from other episodes of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre®.
The cover art is available on shirts and other fun merch from our Redbubble store!
Digital Downloads - don't need a CD and all the cool props? Select a digital download and you'll get nearly three hours audio delivered immediately in digital format**. No shipping, no import duties, just great Lovecraftian audio fun! We offer it in 2 versions: our Chapters version breaks the show into the same MP3 chapters used on the CD. Our Fewer Chapters version breaks the show into one long chapter followed by a chapter for each of the possible endings and the conclusion.
The CD edition includes a free digital download of the show.
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* Please note, we don't recommend ordering our audio products from a phone or tablet. Rather, we suggest you do it from a computer. You'll be downloading a .zip file which not all phones and tablets can deal with, but pretty much all computers can. Once you've downloaded and unzipped that file, you can sync our shows onto your phone or tablet for mobile listening.
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.
While more action-packed and with an overall tone less suited to my tastes, the production is top-notch as always, and you can tell the voice actors were having a blast recording this one.
I have recently listened to your: The brotherhood of the beast, and really had a fun time.Thanks and thanks for all your other fantastic adaptations of HPL-Stories. They have all been good and brought me much joy. I hope you will continue. I also hope you will do: Dreamquest of unknown Kadath, or: Out of the aeons.
sUPERBLY EXICUTED. tHE TALES ARE MASNIFICENTLY PORTRAID. eXCELLENT JOB dart!!! gREAT SOUND! gREAT DESIGN gREAT PROPS!!!!
I have all the DART episodes now save for Dreams from the Witch House, Horror at Redhook, The White Tree, and Dagon/War of the Worlds. This is the first DART I've listened to that I didn't particularly like. After the genuine achievement in art that was the Masks episode, I was very excited about this one because it was another episode based on a module from Call of Cthulhu. As always the voice acting, music and props were on point, but the endings killed this one for me. I love the idea of multiple endings for an episode of this type as it fits really well with how open-ended table top RPGs are, but the fact that one specific character died horribly in each episode was just upsetting. While I really hope that the Society continues to get to make DART episodes based on CoC modules, I probably won't listen to this one again.
