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The Lovecraft Investigations
''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, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Podcast
Horror is a genre of podcasts covering fiction, non-fiction, and reviews of the horror genre generally. History Horror podcasts are typically created and run by volunteers in their free time. As some podcasts such as ''Archive 81'' and ''The Deep Vault'' have grown they have been able to attract advertisers. The world's longest running, active horror podcast is WithoutYourHead.com which has been going since August 2006 as a semi-regular weekly series with celebrity interviews. Horror podcasts have featured in the Parsec Awards, and in 2013 ''The NoSleep Podcast'' won the award for "Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team" while in 2014 a story from ''Pseudopod'' won the award for "Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form)" and ''We're Alive'' won "Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form)". Reception Horror fiction is the most popular type of audio drama podcast and drives much of the growth and interest in the medium. Horror Fiction podcasting cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunter Of The Dark
"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of ''Weird Tales'' (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). It was the last written of the author's known works, and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis". The story is a sequel to "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch. Bloch wrote a third story in the sequence, " The Shadow from the Steeple", in 1950. Plot In Providence, Robert Blake, a young writer with an interest in the occult, becomes fascinated by a large disused church on Federal Hill which he can see from his lodgings on the city's east side. His research reveals that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local migrant inhabitants as being haunted by a primordial evil. Blake enters the church and ascends the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Staton
Rebekah Staton (born 17 June 1981 in Leek, Staffordshire, England) is an English actress and narrator. She is best known for narrating '' Don't Tell The Bride'' and for her roles as Della in '' Raised by Wolves'' and Katy in ''Home''. She has also appeared in numerous other British TV programmes like ''DanTDM Creates a Big Scene'' as a voice actress. Early life Born in Leek, Staffordshire, her family then moved to Shrewsbury, and aged nine to Penkridge, Staffordshire. She attended Wolgarston High School, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career Her TV credits include playing Jenny in the 2007 ''Doctor Who'' two-part "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", and Althea in two episodes in the series ''Rome''. She played Louise in the BBC Three award-winning sitcom '' Pulling''. She also plays Kristina in the BBC One version of the ''Wallander'' series. Other appearances include two episodes of ''The Amazing Mrs Pritchard'', six of '' State of Play'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Godley
Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is a British-American actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards and four Laurence Olivier Awards for his performances on the New York and London stages which include, ''Private Lives'' in 2001, ''The Pillowman'' in 2002, ''Rain Man'' in 2008, and ''The Lehman Trilogy'' in 2019. He made his Broadway debut in 2002 in a revival of Noël Coward's ''Private Lives'' for which he earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway debut. In 2011 he returned to Broadway in the musical ''Anything Goes'' for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. In 2021, ''The Lehman Trilogy'' made its Broadway transfer to great critical acclaim, and securing Godley another Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play. His film roles include ''Love Actually'' (2003), and the children's films ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (2004), ''Nanny McPhee'' (2005), and ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005). He also has recurring ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox (born 16 April 1987) is an English actress, who was nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard awards for work in theatre. She has appeared in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " The Entire History of You" (2011), '' The Woman in Black: Angel of Death'' (2015), '' The Hollow Crown: Wars of the Roses'' (2016), and ''The Great'' (2020-present). Early life Fox is the daughter of "jobbing actors" Stuart Fox and Prue Clarke. Fox was educated at Chiswick School Fox trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career In 2010, Fox made her debut acting appearance in the play '' A Month in the Country'' at the Chichester Festival Theatre. The following year she starred in ''As You Like It'' at the Rose Theatre, ''The Acid Test'' at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and ''There Is A War'' at the National Theatre as part of their Double Feature in the Paintframe. Based on these performances she was nominated for the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Milton Shulman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Armour
Jennifer Armour (born August 27, 1985, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actress and voice artist. She is known for starring in ''Ghoul'' directed by Petr Jákl. In 2022, she began playing Wendy Blissett in the long-running British soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Filmography Video games ''Horizon Forbidden West, Dead Island 2, Battlefield 2042 , Gears Tactics, Battlefield V, Lego The Incredibles'', '' Alien: Isolation'', '' Star Wars Battlefront II'', Control, '' Mirror's Edge Catalyst'', ''Guitar Hero Live'', '' Hidden Agenda'', '' Homefront: The Revolution'', ''Soma Soma may refer to: Businesses and brands * SOMA (architects), a New York–based firm of architects * Soma (company), a company that designs eco-friendly water filtration systems * SOMA Fabrications, a builder of bicycle frames and other bicycle ...'', '' Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire'', '' SpellForce 3, The Crew.'' References External links * * 1985 births Living people American actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Crome
Karla Patsy Crome (born 22 June 1988) is a British actress and writer, best known for her work on Sky Atlantic's '' Hit & Miss'', playing series regular Jess on E4's ''Misfits'', and appearances in a number of other television series and films, mainly in the United Kingdom, including the award-winning ''Murder''. In 2012, Screen International named Crome as one of the "UK Stars of Tomorrow". Early life She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (hons) acting course from the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Clapham, London. Television Crome played the lead, Coleen, in Birger Larsen's BAFTA Award-winning (2013) production of ''Murder'' for BBC2. Alison Graham said in ''The Radio Times'': "...it stayed with me for days, dammit. Every brittle little shard of it, thanks largely to one of the most astounding, affecting acting performances I have ever seen, from rising star Karla Crome as Coleen..." On 22 May 2012, it was announced that Crome would appear in the fourth series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Calder (actor)
David Ian Calder (born 1 August 1946) is an English actor. Life and career Calder was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His most high-profile TV roles include Det. Insp. George Resnick in the crime series ''Widows'' and Nathan Spring in the sci-fi drama ''Star Cops''. In 1989, he appeared in the TV adaptation of the David Lodge novel ''Nice Work''. In 2012 he portrayed Captain Edward Smith in the ITV mini-series ''Titanic''. From 2005–06, he took on the role of PC George Dixon in the radio adaptation of the BBC's long running television series ''Dixon of Dock Green''. Other TV credits include: ''Boys from the Blackstuff'', '' The Professionals'', '' Enemy at the Door'', ''Minder'', '' Bergerac'', ''The New Statesman'', '' Between the Lines'', '' Bramwell'', '' Cracker'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', '' Heartbeat'', ''Sleepers'', '' Spooks'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Hustle'', '' Waking the Dead'', ''Wallis & Edward'', ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Barnett (actor)
Samuel Barnett (born 25 April 1980) is an English actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of ''The History Boys'' by Alan Bennett. His television performances include roles in the BBC comedy ''Twenty Twelve'' and in the Showtime drama ''Penny Dreadful''. He played the lead role of Dirk Gently in ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', the 2016 BBC America adaptation of the book series by Douglas Adams. Early life Barnett was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, on 25 April 1980. He has four siblings. His mother comes from a Quaker background whilst his father was descended from Polish Jews. He started performing at an early age before moving to London to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Career Barnett appeared in the original London stage production of Alan Bennett's 2004 play ''The History Boys'', as well as in the New York, Sydney, Wellington and Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover (intelligence Gathering)
A cover in foreign, military or police human intelligence or counterintelligence is the ostensible identity and/or role or position in an infiltrated organization assumed by a covert agent during a covert operation. Official cover In espionage, an official cover operative is one who assumes a position in an organization with diplomatic ties to the government for which the operative works such as an embassy or consulate. This provides the agent with official diplomatic immunity, thus protecting them from the steep punishments normally meted out to captured spies. Upon discovery of an official cover agent's secret hostile role, the host nation often declares the agent '' persona non grata'' and orders them to leave the country. Official cover operatives are granted a set of governmental protections, and if caught in the act of espionage, they can request diplomatic protection from their government. In other words, official cover operatives are agents officially recognized by their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester, New Hampshire (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence, Rhode Island (the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island). In 1620, the Pilgrims, Puritan Separatists from England, established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innsmouth
Lovecraft Country is a term coined for the New England setting used by H. P. Lovecraft in many of his weird fiction stories, which combines real and fictitious locations. This setting has since been elaborated on by other writers working in the Cthulhu Mythos. The phrase was not in use during Lovecraft's own lifetime. Instead the phrase ''Lovecraft Country'' was coined by Keith Herber for the Lovecraftian role-playing game '' Call of Cthulhu''. The phrase is only one of many attempts to label the setting of Lovecraft's works. Alternative phrases include Arkham County, Miskatonic County, and the Miskatonic region. Origin The term was coined by Keith Herber and then popularized by Chaosium, the producers of the Lovecraftian role-playing game '' Call of Cthulhu''. Alternative phrases Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the ''Miskatonic region'', after its fictional river and university. Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it ''Miskatonic County'', and the film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
