History Radio / PleasantGreenUniverse

* ''Bad Memories'' (2011): A wealthy architect and his family are found dead after being missing for six years. Who are the two unidentified bodies found with them? And why does the forensic evidence say they've all been dead far longer than six years?

** ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''

*** ''Albion'': A massive, supernaturally created earthquake afflicts one of England's main LeyLines, Lairre's inscrutable handler Johnson is BrainwashedAndCrazy and Parker gives an object lesson in the joys and occupational hazards of mixing chaos magick and cold war SpyFiction.
* ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard''

* ''Fragments''
* ''Bad Memories''
* ''Fugue State''
* ''Mythos''
** ''Glamis''
*** ''Albion''

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Given the Lovecraftian setting, this is not an uncommon occurrence. Interestingly, this happens to Dr. Willet after being exposed to visions of the Old Ones before killing Lucy Hawthorne, despite his counterpart in the original story being notable as one of the few Lovecraft protagonists ''not'' to suffer this fate.

* BodySurf: In contrast to the original Lovecraft story where Joseph Curwen simply took advantage of his StrongFamilyResemblance to KillAndReplace Charles after being resurrected in an occult ritual, in this version he's actually a disembodied spirit who can possess the body of his closest living relative and "Curwen" was just one in a long line of vessels.
* CompositeCharacter: Joseph Curwen (aka. Ipku-Aya) is mostly based on the character of that name from ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'', but his particular method of cheating death is closer to that used by Ephraim Waite in ''Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep'', albeit with slightly different limitations.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Charles Dexter Ward'' was one of the few Creator/HPLovecraft stories with a relatively happy ending. Simpson brings his version far more into line with with the tone people expect of Lovecraft's work, particularly the fate of Dr. Willet, who winds up blind, disfigured, brain damaged and locked up for the rest of his life in an asylum for the criminally insane for killing one of Ipku-Aya's hosts.

* DumbMuscle: [[spoiler:Walter Brown]] was a large, intellectually disabled brute with a history of violent crime, up to and including murdering his wife with a hammer, before his body was taken over by a surprisingly charming and soft-spoken Mi-go.

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Kennedy was apparently turned into one while being held captive by Barbara Sayers and Dr. Allen. Its implied that Parker or somebody else from The Department somehow wrested control of their programming away from them and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard used Kennedy to assassinate Sayers]].]] Parker [[UnreliableNarrator claims]] to have removed the programming in episode 5 of ''Whisperer'', but considering she neglected to mention anything about how [[spoiler:Sayers]] died and Kennedy had to learn about it from a tape of Matthew's military contact, it may not be advisable to take her at her word.
* PsychoLesbian: April Marsden, knife-wielding cultist bent on summoning the Thelemic goddess Babalon, a little too excited to have Kennedy tied to a chair and married to another woman who [[spoiler:turns out to be an undercover agent of The Department sent to spy on her]].

* UnwittingPawn: The various cultists think they can summon the Old Ones to either gain power or save the environment. They're actually being taken for a ride by Nyarlathotep, who wants to use them to open a portal to Azathoth's dimension, which will result in the end off all life as we know it, and likely the complete annihilation of the entire universe.

* DumbMuscle: [[spoiler:Walter Brown]] was a large, intellectually disabled brute with a history of violent crime, up to and including murdering his wife with a hammer before his body was taken over by a surprisingly charming and soft-spoken Mi-go.

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Kennedy was apparently turned into one while being held captive by Barbara Sayers and Dr. Allen. Its implied that Parker or somebody else from The Department somehow wrested control of their programming away from them and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard used Kennedy to assassinate Sayers]]. Parker [[UnreliableNarrator claims]] to have removed the programming in episode 5 of ''Whisperer'', but considering she neglected to mention anything about how [[spoiler:Sayers]] died and Kennedy had to learn about it from a tape of Matthew's military contact, it may not be advisable to take her at her word.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Hicks is unceremoniously killed off at the very beginning of ''Glamis'' due to [[TimeyWimeyBall complications]] of ''Mythos''' early time travel shenanigans causing him to be transported back to the 1600s, where he was promptly arrested by paranoid authorities and executed. To add insult to injury, Johnson finding documentation of his death while searching for clues to his whereabouts [[UsefulNotes/SchroedingersCat solidified its place in the timestream]].

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Many real historical figures turn up in the backstory of the ''Mythos'' series and the Lovecraft adaptations including AleisterCrowley, James "Cunning" Murrell, and proto-[[{{Ghostapo}} Nazi Occultist]] Rudolf von Sebbotendorf.