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:
“The sea
takes on that desperate tone
of dark that wives put on
when all their love is done.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.”
—Anonymous. BBC Radio 4 (April 8, 1990)
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)