The Lovecraft Invasion (audio story)

The Lovecraft Invasion was the two hundred and sixty fifth audio story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Robert Valentine and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Lisa Greenwood as Flip Jackson and Miranda Raison as Constance Clarke.

	Sixth Doctor
	Flip, Constance
	H. P. Lovecraft
	Somnifax
	Providence, January 1937 H. P. Lovecraft's mind
	Big Finish Productions
	Robert Valentine
	Scott Handcock
	John Ainsworth
	Andy Hardwick
	Andy Hardwick & Peter Doggart
	Tom Newsom
	265
	30 July 2020
	BFPDWCD265
	978-1-83868-004-6
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Publisher's summary

The Doctor, Constance and Flip join forces with 51st-century bounty hunter, Calypso Jonze, to hunt down the Somnifax: a weaponised mind-parasite capable of turning its host's nightmares into physical reality. Chasing it through the time vortex to Providence, Rhode Island in 1937, they arrive too late to stop it from latching onto a local author of weird fiction... Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

With time running out before Lovecraft's monstrous pantheon breaks free and destroys the world, the Doctor must enter Lovecraft's mind to fight the psychic invader from within.

Can he and Flip overcome the eldritch horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos? And will Constance and Calypso survive babysitting the infamously xenophobic Old Gentleman of Providence himself?

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Constance - Miranda Raison
• Flip - Lisa Greenwood
• Calypso Jonze - Robyn Holdaway
• Howard Lovecraft / Randolph Carter - Alan Marriott
• Mailman / Shoggoth / Wilbur / Armitage / Chief Ghoul - David Menkin 
• Nyarlathotep / Cthulhu / Inmate / Desk Guard - Jonathan Andrew Hume  

References

• Lovecraft wrote The Dunwich Horror.

Notes

Alternate cover.

• This story was originally due for a June 2020 release but, due to production issues, it was pushed back to late July 2020.
• The first 15 minutes were previewed in the Big Finish Podcast prior to the story's original planned release date in June. The final release in July contained additional lines condemning H.P. Lovecraft's racism that were not in the original preview.
• The story was recorded on 29 and 30 January 2020 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor intends to keep the imprisoned Somnifax in his TARDIS's 'tertiary sock drawer'. He would later keep the imprisoned Carrionites in his TARDIS in his tenth incarnation (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp, PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426, AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse)
  • Calypso Jonze told the Doctor that they couldn't think of a safer place to keep the imprisoned Somnifax than in the Doctor's TARDIS. Ironically, the Carrionites were still able to be a danger to the Doctor in his fourth (PROSE: Toil and Trouble) and sixth incarnations (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse) despite being imprisoned.

External links

• Official The Lovecraft Invasion page at bigfinish.com