Cthulhu Calling: The Arkham Investigation, ft The Apocalypse Players (Part 1)

Arkham, Massachusetts, 1926. Businessman Ezra Whitmarsh has vanished from a locked study. The air smells of ozone. His business partner is sweating through his suit. And someone called "the Syndicate" is already following you from the train station. This is Lovecraft country, and PastMaster has gone full cosmic horror. The Apocalypse Players bring their Call of Cthulhu expertise to PastMaster. Joseph Chance plays T.G. Fells, an electrical tinkerer with a lighter and a dangerous curiosity. Dan Wheeler plays Gert of the Well, a professional liar who hasn't lied yet but is absolutely planning to. Claude, playing Game Master in the style of Lovecraft himself, delivers prose so atmospheric the players forget they're improvising. When something in a Georgian mansion blinks at them with wet, alien intelligence, Gert's instinct is to hit it with a blackjack, and the situation does not improve. Set during Prohibition in Lovecraft's fictional Arkham, a New England town where Jazz Age prosperity sits on top of something ancient and deeply wrong. The 1920s period detail is immaculate: working-class Massachusetts accents, the social dynamics of small-town paranoia, and a reality that becomes increasingly unreliable the deeper the investigation goes. Part 1 of 2, and it ends on the kind of cliffhanger that makes Part 2 essential listening. If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered. Era: Fiction | 1926 CE | Arkham, United States Featuring: The Apocalypse Players (Dan Wheeler, Joseph Chance, Al Clayton, Chris Reading) Part 1 of 2 EPISODE LINKS Follow Dan and Joseph's adventure on the PastMaster Interactive Map 👉 https://map.pastmasterpod.com Dan Wheeler: X @danwheeleruk | danwheeler.org Joseph Chance: X @JosephChance2 Al Clayton: IG @turtlecanyoncom | X @turtlecanyoncom | turtlecanyoncomedy.com Chris Reading: IG @chrisjreading | X @ChrisReading | chrisreading.com GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 www.pastmasterpod.com Instagram 👉 @pastmasterpod TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 @pastmasterAI Email us 👉 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices