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.
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.”
KNX, Hollywood (CBS).
November 11, 1945.
William Spier (director).
Ronald Colman
Yes.
Nov. 11, 1945“The Dunwich Horror”