‘I is for Investigate’ is an independently produced audio drama, with an international cast, many of whom are members of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society.

The series centres around a team of paranormal  investigators and their encounters, presented in a semi-documentary style, using voice-over narration tying together more dramatic, dialogue-driven scenes.  

We’ve completed two seasons with a number of supplementary items supporting, or arising from, each season. Our stories use H P Lovecraft  and associated authors as a starting point, but are heavily adapted for modern audiences

The premise of the series may sound familiar to you, and I don’t mind admitting that we were strongly inspired by Julian Simpson’s ‘The Lovecraft Investigations’, which we discovered during the pandemic.

At that time, producer, Neil Brooker, was doing a fair amount of voice-over work for his day job, which involved using recording equipment he’d bought. Wanting to get more use from the money he’d invested in recording equipment, he pitched an idea to me, and subsequently we decided on characters for ourselves, and I started to create the world they lived in.

The stories I write have a modern day setting, but the world they inhabit is a place where everything HP Lovecraft wrote… was real. This allows me to blend elements of different stories in one series. So in ‘The Shambler from the Stars’, you’ll find a discussion of  events similar to those in ‘The Colour out of Space’. To be honest, the first five series were all planned before I wrote the first. Now I've just got to write them all!

My approach in creating the shows is to ask myself, 'what if something like the events in, 'Dagon', for example,happened again? But due to the world I use being based on Lovecraft’s writings, I'm free to bring in elements of  ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’. There’s been a running thread from ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ as well, with references to strange cults and the Angell papers.

If this sounds like a world you’d like to check out, there are quite a few episodes out there to entertain you. Dive in… but watch out for Deep Ones!