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P . Lovecraft  \nRead-along Script  \nJune 28, 2012  \n©2012 by HPLHS Inc . All Rights Reserved .  \nNOTICE: This script is provided as a convenience only to DART listeners to follow along with the recorded show . It is not licensed for professional or amateur performance of any kind . Inquiries regarding performance rights should be sent to  \n[keeper@cthulhulives.org](keeper@cthulhulives.org)  \n1 INTRODUCTION 1  \nSFX: static, radio tuning, snippet of 30s song, more tuning,  \nstatic dissolves to:  \nDark Adventure Radio THEME MUSIC .  \nANNOUNCER  \nTales of intrigue, adventure, and the mysterious occult that will  \nstir your imagination and make your  \nvery blood run cold .  \nMUSIC CRESCENDO .  \nANNOUNCER (CONT’D)  \nThis is Dark Adventure Radio  \nTheatre, with your host Erskine  \nBlackwell . Today’s episode: H .P .  \nLovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”.  \nMUSIC DIMINISHES . The sound of the ocean: surging WAVES and weather, the CRY of a gull. There is occasional STATIC, as though the radio is imperfectly tuned .  \nERSKINE BLACKWELL  \nA random murder in a public park.  \nAn artist wracked by fantastical  \nand haunting dreams . A police  \ninspector confronting the depraved rites of a voodoo cult . Intrepid  \nsailors pitted against a diabolical  \nmonstrosity risen from the bottom  \nof the sea . And one man, doomed to  \nunderstand that such things  \nforetell madness and the end of  \nmankind .  \nA few piano notes from the FORHAN’S TOOTHPASTE JINGLE .  \nERSKINE BLACKWELL (CONT’D)  \nMmmm-mmm, nothing like a marvelous meal prepared by an expert chef .  \nBut did you know, those delicious  \ncreamy foods can lead to gum  \nirritation, Vincent’s disease and even pyorrhea? But if you brush  \nmorning and night with Forhan’s  \nToothpaste, you need not worry  \nabout these serious medical  \nconditions . Forhan’s is the only  \ndentifrice made with Zithranite-a  \npowerful agent to stimulate and  \nprotect your gums .  \n(MORE)  \nFirst Revision 2.  \nERSKINE BLACKWELL (CONT’D)  \nSo go ahead, eat like a king, but  \nmake sure you brush with Forhan’s!  \nDark Adventure LEAD-IN MUSIC .  \nERSKINE BLACKWELL (CONT’D)  \nLadies and Gentlemen, Algernon  \nBlackwood, the great British author  \nof weird fiction, once wrote: “Of  \nsuch great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long  \nsince withdrawn before the tide of  \nadvancing humanity. . . forms of  \nwhich poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called  \nthem gods, monsters, mythical  \nbeings of all sorts and kinds . . .”  \nAnd now Dark Adventure Radio  \nTheatre presents: H .P . Lovecraft’s  \n“The Call of Cthulhu”.  \nTRANSITION MUSIC . 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Maybe a real sharp knife?  \nMALLORY  \nHell of a way to lose your wallet .  \nAnybody see anything?  \nHALE  \nWe got a neighbor.  \n(to bystander)  \nYou! The detective wants a word  \nwith you .  \nA ","cbCainZBwUBqJmqI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainZBwUBqJmqI","pdf",178835,82,"English","# INTRODUCTION\n# CRIME SCENE\n# THURSTON’S APARTMENT","[{\"question\":\"What source work is “The Call of Cthulhu” based on in this script?\",\"answer\":\"It is based on “The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft.\"},{\"question\":\"Who hosts and narrates this Dark Adventure Radio Theatre episode?\",\"answer\":\"The episode is presented with your host Erskine Blackwell.\"},{\"question\":\"What starts the story’s plot in the “Crime Scene” section?\",\"answer\":\"A police siren and officers arrive at a crime scene to respond to a murder in a public park and interview witnesses.\"}]","DARK ADVENTURE RADIO THEATRE - THE CALL OF CTHULHU - Read-along Script | PDF",1791301304,31]