AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
[NOVEL]
[Sean Branney] “‘At the Mountains of Madness’ is a terrific story, but to tell it well as a movie, we
would need a whole lot more money than we have. So, we thought once again we'd turn to the
technologies of Lovecraft's age. Part of what works so well with the novella is the spectacular
images which you imagine as you read it. In a radio drama, we could provide sound effects and
music that would be evocative, but the listener would still have the experience of conjuring these
powerful images in their imaginations. We've been very gratified that so many of our customers
who never listened to old radio shows have found ATMOM (and radio drama) to be a very exciting
way to experience a story.”
“Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it
might have been adapted for radio during his lifetime. In the style of The War of the Worlds and
The Shadow, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a cast of professional
actors, exciting sound effects and original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of
Cthulhu). Relive the excitement of 1930s radio with one of HP Lovecraft's most exciting and
fascinating stories: At the Mountains of Madness.
[Lausch Rausch] By processing the HPLovecraft Hörspiel classic MOUNTAINS of madness,
realized the young Hörspiel Publisher Lausch RAUSCH its first publication.
“Mountains of madness (original title At the Mountains of Madness) is a horror story by HP
Lovecraft, which in 1936 in Astounding magazine was first published. It builds on the Cthulhu
mythology to Love Crafts.
Interview with Gerd Naumann, reprinted in Gothic Magazine # 60 published in May 2008
[CHRONOLOGY]
(ATLANTA RADIO THEATRE, ATLANTA)
??? ??, 19?? “At the Mountains of Madness”
EXTANT RECORDING
DARK ADVENTURE RADIO THEATRE (THE H. P. LOVECRAFT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY)
Circa 2006 “At the Mountains of Madness”
PERSONNEL: Sean Branney (director), Troy Sterling Nies (composer).
EXTANT RECORDING
(LAUSCH RAUSCH, BERLIN)
October 2006 “Berge des Wahnsinns”
[“…In the form of a diary is characterized first-person narrator William
Dyer the course of an expedition to Antarctica after. First search he and
his team of exceptional and Mesozoic rocks, like chalk slate. But then
they come to a cave in which they are fossils of an unknown man, half
plant and half-animal race to discover. Soon, they met with the ancient
cities of a superior civilization and see that the prehistory of the Earth
was very different than the science accepts….”]
SCRIPT: Gerd Naumann.
PERSONNEL: Gerd Naumann (director), Akki Schulz (music).
CAST: Herbert Fux (Pabodie), Lutz Harder (William Dyer), Michael Jackenkroll
(Moulton), David Nathan (Danforth), Jan Pröhl (Douglas), Christian Rode
(Lake), Friedrich Schoenfelder (Professor).
EXTANT RECORDING
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (RADIO 7, LONDON—BBC)
[Monday-Friday—6:00-6:30 PM]
November 1, 2010 [EP. 1]
[RADIO 4 EXTRA NEWSLETTER: “…A professor of geology attempts to
stop an expedition to a remote mountain range in Antarctica—having
himself experienced the terrors that await the unsuspecting traveller.
Richard Coyle reads HP Lovecraft’s chilling tale, directed by Neil
Gardner…”]
[BBC RADIO: “…High in the Antarctic, a team of scientists make an
unexpected discovery…”]
November 2, 2010 [EP. 2]
[BBC RADIO: “…A grisly discovery at Professor Lake’s camp sparks a
perilous two-man flight over monstrous mountains…”]
November 3, 2010 [EP. 3]
[BBC RADIO: “…Dyer and student geologist Danforth discover sprawling
evidence of an incredible ancient civilization…”]
November 4, 2010 [EP. 4]
[BBC RADIO: “…Investigating fantastic ancient structures high in the
Antarctic, Dyer and Danforth face pure terror…”]
November 5, 2010 [EP. 5]
[BBC RADIO: “…Battling in the Antarctic, can Dyer and Danforth escape
with their lives? Richard Coyle concludes HP Lovecraft’s tale of terror…”]
SCRIPT: Paul Kent (abridger).
PERSONNEL: Richard Coyle (reader), Neil Gardner (producer).