Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Chronicles of Horror
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Chronicles of Horror is a fantastic horror radio play series by Markus Winter based on motifs by Howard Phillips Lovecraft with Wolfgang Pampel and Tommy Morgenstern in the leading roles. It has been published by WinterZeit AUDIOBOOKS since 2020 on vinyl , CD and as a download .
Series concept
The series appears in sequential seasons, each consisting of four radio plays with a duration of 60 to 70 minutes. The core plot of a single episode is always based on a fantastic story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The main story spanning all seasons is inspired by those four selected classic stories and combines them into a larger, overarching narrative, which is partly fed by other motifs from Lovecraft's cosmos. In this context, the theme of the sudden disappearance and reappearance of the main character, who may have found a way to overcome time and dimensions, is used centrally within the series.
That main character is Randolph Carter, a recurring character in the work of writer Lovecraft who is often adopted by Lovecraft experts as his alter ego . This takes up the series by making a narrator called Lovecraft quasi as the second protagonist step out of his narrative role again and again, whereby the boundaries between the writer Lovecraft and his character Carter continue to blur.
criticism
According to SLAM alternative music magazine , Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Chronicles of Horror is not limited to processing classic Lovecraft texts, “but also builds a bridge to Lovecraft as a person and his private life. An exciting connection that (...) opens up without breaks and logic holes. ”In addition, the credible staging of the different time levels, which presented a special challenge from 1917 to 2019, is particularly emphasized, as is the unusual complexity of the project.
In its Lovecrafter magazine, the German Lovecraft Society highlighted the largely “faithful implementation of the eponymous story” of the first episode, Act 1: Dagon , which had never been set to music before and called the radio play adaptation “really excellent”. The assessment of the overriding action, however, is difficult before it is completed, but it arouses “curiosity” in any case.
Both listeners and critics were unanimous about the opulent music score and the sound design - both of which meet the standards of a Hollywood production - as well as about the excellent speaker performance and the rest of the technical implementation. The features of the CD and double vinyl editions were also praised, with their extensive supplements or giant posters, translucent green vinyl and much more, representing an extraordinary “added value” compared to other productions.
Episode list
- File 1: Dagon
- Act 2: The Crypt
- File 3: The Nameless City
- Act 4: The Music of Erich Zann (not yet published)
Web link
swell
- ↑ https://www.winterzeitstudios.de/produkt/howard-phillips-lovecraft-chroniken-des-grauen-akte-01-dagon/
- ↑ https://www.poldis-hoerspielseite.de/interview-mit-markus-winter-zu-choniken-des-gra.htm
- ↑ https://www.slam-zine.de/php/howard_phillips_lovecraft__chroniken_des_grauen_akte_1,13867,49171.html
- ↑ https://www.deutschelovecraftgesellschaft.de/article/50-lovecrafter-online-024-chroniken-des-grauen-1-dagon/
- ↑ https://www. Zaubererspiegel-online.de/index.php/phantastisches/gehrtes-mainmenu-151/36791-hoerspiel-klasse-mit-mehrwert-der-neue-lovecraft-fuer-die-ohren