Dark Adventure Radio Theatre is a series of radio dramas produced by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. They are produced in the style of the 1930s, with "Dark Adventure Radio Theatre" being a Mercury Theatre-type production hosted by Chester Langfield and sponsored by Fleur-de-Lys Cigarettes. They feature casts of professional actors, original music and the CD versions come with a series of four prop documents (newspaper clippings, etc...) from the show. The current productions are:
- Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness
- Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Call of Cthulhu
- Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror
- Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time
- Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Famous quotes containing the words dark, adventure, radio and/or theatre:
“Midway along the journey of our life [Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita] I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn’t seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)