hplhs – Page 6 – Moe Lane

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?

In the Mail: @HPLHS’s THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Dark Adventure Radio Theater.

I actually got it Saturday, but I forgot to get the mail Saturday. So now I’m listening to THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE now, headphones and all. As always, the DART’s a treat; the HPL Historical Society does good work with these.

But I still want more movies*.

Moe Lane

*Yeah, I know, Nick Cage’s making one on this very subject. But I want more HPLHS movies, too. I’m greedy that way.

20% off sale at @HPLHS.

A good deal. I finally went ahead and picked up The Colour Out Of Space Dark Adventure Radio Theater, which I’ve been meaning to get forever but I had all the other DARTs to get first. But I seemed to have run out of other DARTs to get first, which is worrisome. I kind of liked having the backlog there to chew through.

Anyway, 20% off is nice and there’s stuff in there worth getting.

https://twitter.com/HPLHS/status/1201545535791878145

Doing the Eldritch Elf thing for @HPLHS.

Secret Santa, only with blasphemous artifacts and whatnot. Should be fun! Check it out… actually, I don’t know if Eldritch Elf is something that people who aren’t in the HPLHS can do. Still, hopefully my recipient will enjoy those sea shanties!

UNTIL THE MADNESS COMES.

In the E-Mail: the @HPLHS THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME DART.

Link for THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME Dark Adventure Radio Theater program here. Got the download just in time, too: I gotta take the kids to the dentist this afternoon. I can listen to this while they get on with the teeth cleaning and whatnot.

The only problem? I’m starting to run out of DARTs to get, alas. Dunno what I’m going to do when they’re all bought.

@HPLHS’s MAD SCIENCE (DART) available for pre-order.

They’re adding a pre-order bonus, which is nice. And there’s an option to not make the donation; I offer no opinion one way or the other on whether you should or should not. I’m retired, me.

https://twitter.com/HPLHS/status/1162153159118082050

So the physical DART of THE LURKING FEAR arrived from @HPLHS.

I gotta say, I’m impressed.

Being mailed: THE LURKING FEAR (DART, @HPLHS)

I’m mentioning it now because I just got a link for the MP3 for THE LURKING FEAR Dark Adventure Radio Theater program; the rest of the stuff comes via mail, but I can listen to the program tonight. I love these; the DARTs are fun to listen to and the props are awesome. If you ever decide to run a TTRPG session off of HP Lovecraft’s actual stories, the HPL Historical Society deliberately makes these props to be helpful for that. Eventually I’ll have the entire set…

Moe Lane

In the [E-]Mail: @hplhs’s The Dunwich Horror (Dark Adventure Radio Theater).

Ordered the CD for The Dunwich Horror as usual, got sent the MP3. This is the HPL Historical Society’s usual good work; slowly but surely, I’m getting the entire Dark Adventure Radio Theater collection. I almost got this for the car ride down, but I ran out of time.