Phoebe Fox as Parker (season 2-3), a member of a mysterious organization with ties to the supernatural.David Calder as Henry Akeley (season 2), a former student of Peck who goes missing, leading Fisher and Heawood to go look for him and look into his life.Allan" (season 1), a librarian who becomes close to Fisher and helps her in her investigation Susan Jameson as Alice (season 1, 3), a librarian met by Fisher in the first season, who meets her again in season 3 after having become a fan of the show.Doctor Willett (season 1-3), Ward's former psychiatric who was later eventually also placed in a psychiatric institution after brutally murdering a seemingly random woman.Samuel Barnett as Charles Dexter Ward (season 1, 3), a patient in a psychiatric facility whose inexplicable disappearance is investigated by Heawood and Fisher.Nicola Walker as Eleanor Peck (season 1-3), a teacher who specializes in myths and the occult, and comes to regularly act as an advisor for the podcast.Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher, Headwood's long-time Mystery Machine co-host who specializes in on-site investigating.Barnaby Kay as Matthew "Matt" Heawood, the co-host of the Mystery Machine who specializes in research, and in the post-production of the podcast. ![]() In developing the series, Simpson sought to modernize Lovecraft's stories while also tying in different folklore and actual unsolved mysteries. ![]() The "Mystery Machine" characters continue in BBC Radio 4's 2022 Limelight series Who Is Aldrich Kemp?, which continues the Pleasant Green storylines without a Lovecraft connection. Karen Rose produced all three series with sound design by David Thomas and music by Tim Elsenburg. In particular, a version of The Department, a shadowy government agency monitoring supernatural threats, appears in both the Mythos trilogy of audio dramas and The Lovecraft Investigations a bonus episode for the final episode of the series also directly mentions Marie Lairre, a character from Mythos. The series was written by Julian Simpson and is connected to his Pleasant Green Universe audio drama setting. To do so, Heawood goes to Iraq, while Fisher goes to Innsmouth. In The Shadow over Innsmouth, the two investigate the family of Fisher, after their previous investigations lead them to believe the family might be connected to the conspiracies uncovered in the podcast. Although Akeley contacted Peck claiming to have important things to share, upon arriving to his house, he is nowhere to be seen, and the clues and recordings he left behind are puzzling. In The Whisperer in Darkness, the duo investigates Henry Akeley, an elderly man from Suffolk and former acquaintance of Eleanor Peck, a woman who helped them in the case of Charles Dexter Ward. The first season, " The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", follows Heawood and Fisher as they investigate the unexplained disappearance of Charles Dexter Ward, a young patient in a mental health facility in Rhode Island who vanished one day from a closed room, never to be seen again. It features a large voice cast led by Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter as the two podcasters, Matt Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.Įach 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, and 1931's The Shadow over Innsmouth, while creating an overarching story it is also set within Simpson's Pleasant Green Universe of audio dramas. 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. Produced by Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4, the podcast premiered on 2 January 2019, and ended on 29 November 2020 with the conclusion of its third season. ![]() The Lovecraft Investigations is a mystery thriller/ horror fiction podcast written and directed by Julian Simpson, based on several works of H.P.
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