Listened to @HPLHS’s A SOLSTICE CAROL last night.

Because if you’re wrapping presents at midnight, why not do it while listening to a HPL Historical Society DART? Anyway, A SOLSTICE CAROL is excellent; I don’t know if it’s my absolute favorite Lovecraft radio play, but it’s definitely in the top three. The DART is a genuinely clever combination of Lovecraft and Dickens that manages to capture the mood of, say, ‘Pickman’s Model’ while at the same time remaining true to the mood of ‘A Christmas Carol.’ I found the climatic moment endearing and oddly sweet, despite the fact that it… ah, spoilers.

Worth checking out, in other words.

Oh, wait, @HPLHS’s A SOLSTICE CAROL isn’t their Christmas album.

Silly me. A SOLSTICE CAROL is actually a set of three HPL short stories linked together by a Dickensian framing device. Given that one of the stories is ‘Pickman’s Model,’ a story with some resonance to me, of course I must pick it up.

And possibly the HPL Historical Society could have made that a little clearer? I say this without heat. No harm done in the end, after all.

Moe Lane

PS: Looks like you can get the DARTs as audiobooks on Amazon. That probably makes it easier to download them?