Liverpool Sound and Vision has a positive review of a production of a radically re-worked adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”. No link, but a forum comment I found fully explains what it is. It’s a…

2019 audio drama, adapted in eight parts by Julian Simpson from the story by H P. Lovecraft. Henry Akeley has vanished from his home near Rendlesham Forest, and the podcasters investigate. Updated to the modern day, transplanted to England, and converted to an audio drama, but essentially rewritten from scratch

It doesn’t appear to be online, but Miskatonic University Podcast interviewed the maker.

New on YouTube, “Who The Hell Is Lovecraft?”, a 15 minute explainer for the clueless. Filmed ‘on location’ and with a clear narrator and some production values, a newbie might do a lot worse if they knew nothing at all about the man.

New on YouTube, an audio reading by ‘thehashisheater’ of several Lovecraft letters. Being “The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft & Clark Ashton Smith: The First Three Letters From Lovecraft”.

Also on YouTube, a new hour-long S.T. Joshi Interview.

Even more free audio in the form of LibriVox’s new Halloween 2023 Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070 includes R.E. Howard and 2 x H.P. Lovecraft, among others.

And finally, spotted on Honest Abe’s site… a 2023 ‘inspired by Lovecraft’ vinyl L.P. Definitely not free audio, at a hefty $61.

New on Librivox, for free and public domain, the audiobook for Incredible Adventures (1914) by Algernon Blackwood.

A scanned copy of Incredible Adventures is already available.

A British thesis holds a New Age review of the period, in passing…

[New Age, 6 July (1911), IX: 10, page 2. The New Age magazine discussed] the poetic failure to do justice to mystical subject matter [and stated it was] a symptom of all ‘transitional’ literature attempting to capture and represent the essence of the unseen. A review primarily of Algernon Blackwood’s Incredible Adventures (1914), but drawing on other comparable writers articulates the problem that the world created by Blackwood’s fiction is in constant flux: it is an ‘incalculable world’ such as the ‘logical mind of man, the mind of words, can have no intelligent contact’. Blackwood’s world remains alien to the reviewer of his fiction because no language, and by implication genre, has been found by which to adequately express the significance and substance of the unseen world. Hitherto a fantasy or metaphorical space in fiction, the unseen world was now being charted and co-opted by, for example, the life sciences and the sciences of the mind and a medical language being expanded with which to describe its structures and their meanings. In light of science’s demystification of occult psychical space, Blackwood’s magical composition is too vague for the modern reader and can carry therefore no weight of narrative meaning; the reliance for narrative drive on the tension between ‘white or black’ magic is further made irrelevant by the popular view of psychiatry as having triumphed over demonology.

Lovecraft, however, fully approved of the book’s subtlety and atmosphere…

In the volume titled Incredible Adventures occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to secret and terrible aspects lurking behind stolid scenes, and to unimaginable vaults of mystery below the sands and pyramids of Egypt; all with a serious finesse and delicacy that convince where a cruder or lighter treatment would merely amuse. Some of these accounts are hardly stories at all, but rather studies in elusive impressions and half-remembered snatches of dream. Plot is everywhere negligible, and atmosphere reigns untrammelled.” (Lovecraft, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Collected Essays)

If Blackwood’s story “A Descent into Egypt” interests you, but you find the plot “negligible”, then there’s a more jut-jawed Egyptian audio adventure from Dark Adventure Radio Theatre. They’re currently taking pre-orders for their new The Temple of Jupiter Ammon recording…

an original tale of two-fisted archaeology and adventure … expected to be released around December.