hp lovecraft imprisoned with the pharaohs

The whole family enjoyed the atmosphere and tension of the story, and were thrilled with the excellent props that come with it. On the whole I felt they did a very good job of translating first-person inner monologue and musing into a third-person radio play without losing either the plot or the flavour of the original. However, they would be hard to do without resorting to just large blocks of narration. As a dramatised version with little narration we lose a lot of the descriptive passages, which is a bit of a shame as they're rather good and eerie in particular, the lengthy descriptions of Houdini's descent into the underworld are heavily cut.

Similarly, the adaptation gives Houdini a companion in his misadventure, which has the great advantage of allowing dialogue, but does remove some of the ambiguity from events. It adds a different twist, which I wouldn't call either an improvement or a detriment, it's just different. It adds on a sort of prequel, which offers an explanation for some of the story's events which were originally pretty inscrutable. In general I felt like things took a while to get going.The first fifteen minutes or so of the story is new material made up for the audio adaptation, which I'm basically neutral about. I felt like this could have been far shorter this section alone lasts a full five minutes and is entirely irrelevant to the rest of the story. The opening segment featuring the variety show is surely realistic, but I found it overlong, and though convincing it isn't particularly interesting in itself. That being said, I think it shares a drawback with the Mountains of Madness adaption in being sometimes a little too true-to-life. The production is excellent and everything can be clearly heard, while sound effects add a lot of depth and action to the story.The adaption is on the whole excellent. The actors do very well, though a couple of times I found Ward and Houdini hard to distinguish due to similar voices.

A very pleasing adaptation of one of my favourite Lovecraft tales.

Hp lovecraft imprisoned with the pharaohs