| The Lovecraft Investigations | |
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| Presentation | |
| Genre | Horror podcast |
| Created by | Julian Simpson |
| Written by | Julian Simpson |
| Directed by | Julian Simpson |
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| Language | British English |
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| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 42 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 2 January 2019 – 16 October 2023 |
| Cited for | Best Fiction (silver) British Podcast Awards |
| Provider | BBC Radio 4 |
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| Website | www |
The Lovecraft Investigations is a mystery thriller/horror fiction podcast created, written and directed by Julian Simpson, based on several works of H. P. Lovecraft. Produced by Karen Rose and Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4, the podcast premiered on 2 January 2019, with further series published in November 2019, November 2020 and October 2023.
The story is a modernization of the original Lovecraft works, set around the same time the podcast aired and presented as a podcast-within-a-podcast in which the two hosts of the Mystery Machine, a true crime podcast investigating cases related to the occult and conspiracy theories, stumble upon a case hiding a much larger mystery. It stars Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter as the two podcasters, Matt Heawood and Kennedy Fisher, with Nicola Walker as Eleanor Peck, a specialist in myths and the occult who helps their investigations.
Each season of The Lovecraft Investigations is titled after, and mostly based on, one of Lovecraft's works, namely 1927's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 1930's The Whisperer in Darkness, 1931's The Shadow over Innsmouth, and 1936's The Haunter of the Dark while creating an overarching story; it is also set within Simpson's Pleasant Green Universe of audio dramas, with the character of Fisher notably appearing in Simpson's Who is Aldrich Kemp? between the third and fourth seasons of The Lovecraft Investigations.[1][2]
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- ^ "The Lovecraft Investigations". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.