Released in 2015, Dagon: War of the Worlds is one of the first ‘original’ audio plays produced by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society as part of their Dark Adventure Radio Theatre line - a series which provides a nostalgic homage to old time radio theatre, but with a Lovecaftian spin. Whilst the DART releases up to this point have not always been faithful adaptations of Lovecaft’s work (2014’s Imprisoned With The Pharaohs, for example, included a lot of additional material not included in the original tale), Dagon: War of the Worlds takes the kernal of Lovecraft’s original tale and develops it into a full-on sequel to The Shadow Over Innsmouth, taking in Orson Welles’ radio staging of H.G. Wells’ classic novel on the way. By way of avoiding spoilers, I’ll say no more than that - and whilst not ‘canonical’ Lovecraft, Dagon: War of the Worlds is a huge amount of fun.
As is par for the course with DART releases, the CD of D:WotW contains a range of props to further immerse the listener into the story; in addition to which, the HPLHS also released an additional prop in the form of a 1930s newspaper relating the events of the audio drama, which I picked up at NecronomiCon 2015.
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