‘Beautifully warm and experienced presenters’: Miquita and Andi Oliver. A photograph is described that sounds so real I found myself looking it up. In The Haunter of the Dark she gives us a potted history of 20th-century British fascists, many of whom existed (Oswald Mosley), and also explains how they overlap with occultists such as Aleister Crowley. As in previous series, Dr Eleanor Peck ( Nicola Walker), the academic who appears to know everything about everything, is given an entire episode to explain what’s going on. The new element to add to UK folklore, time slip and the occult is fascism. Gradually, it becomes clear that we’ve moved on from the Shadow’s heebie-jeebie, dark magick forces. Kennedy is trying to get on with things, but her plans are waylaid by a new character, the crumpled roué Marcus Byron, who starts her off on a new adventure.

And I did that too in this new series… but I’m not going to tell you when.Īt the start, Matt, as I mentioned, is still lost. (Simpson gives an explanation of how this happened in his Substack newsletter, if you’re interested.) There was a moment in the second episode of The Whisperer in Darkness, where I genuinely jumped and let out a gasp. Over the years, something else unusual has happened too: the imagined world in which Kennedy and Matt exist has expanded, and they’re now part of a vast ecosystem – a bit like the Marvel universe but more everyday and, to be honest, quite a lot scarier. The actors (Jana Carpenter and Barnaby Kay) don’t seem to act, but just are. So when someone makes a phone call, it sounds like an actual phone call when they stumble and fall, or get hit, or worse, we hear that too. Three series so far – The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth – each with excellent characters, exciting yarns, proper scares, all twisted into fast-moving tales that couldn’t be told in any other medium.įrom the very first episode of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in 2018, The Lovecraft Investigations raised the bar for British audio drama, simply by sounding like real life. Loosely based on the stories of HP Lovecraft, but brought bang up to date by writer-director Julian Simpson (our heroes are podcasters and we are told the stories through hearing their show), these are gripping listens. Because you get to binge-listen to the spooky, intricate, brilliant set of drama series called The Lovecraft Investigations. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about – yay for you.

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