THE DUNWICH HORROR
[NOVELETTE]
Major Lovecraft story adapted several times for radio. The 1945 broadcast was the first full-
fledged Lovecraft dramatization, although readings of Lovecraft stories had preceded it: Nelson
Olmsted read “The Music of Erich Zann” in 1943, and there’s a strong possibility that the
Lovecraft ghost-written story “The Curse of Yig” was narrated by Mexico’s El Monje Loco.
[The Masked Movie Critic, May-June 2005] “I spent a month planning on tuning in to their
promised adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror only to find, when the night arrived,
that it wasn’t a ‘dramatization’ at all…but just a bunch of actors reading the story, and in a
decidedly arty, slightly annoying, way. That’s right—only an hour of so-called drama a week and,
at least in this case, it wasn’t a ‘drama’, but a glorified talking book.”
ORIGINATION: KNX, Hollywood (CBS).
DURATION: November 11, 1945.
PERSONNEL: William Spier (director).
CAST: Ronald Colman
EXTANT RECORDINGS: Yes.
SUSPENSE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)
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Nov. 11, 1945 “The Dunwich Horror”