Very good setting of the original story

Very good setting of the original story

Gruselkabinett - episode 77: The fire of Asshurbanipal (Audio CD)

Customer Review

The horrors has long established itself as an extremely high-quality radio play - it is technically very well done, the spokesman among the best and the selection of stories is varied. The implementation in radio drama scripts succeed usually also very good. Even in the present "The fire of Asshurbanipal" this is the case. The screenplay adheres very closely to the original story by Robert E. Howard (in the excellent book "People of Darkness" of the Festa publishing currently available in German, incidentally).
Unlike some previous setting of the horror cabinet here has decided not to install additional roles. This would certainly arg changes the atmosphere of the story. So it remains for the two seasoned adventurers who fight alone through the deadly desert to hopefully reach some point the fabled city of the devil, in the ruins of which are a cursed ruby ​​is - precisely that titular "fire of Asshurbanipal". The radio play implementation remains extremely close to the literary source - storyline and even many dialogs are almost identical. The fact that the role of the American home gene Steve Clarney is precisely spoken by Wolfgang pomelo (the German voice of Harrison Ford), is certainly not a coincidence!
Howard loved - to see how his letters - the romanticized Arab world. The vast desert areas with their ancient secrets. He has settled many of his stories there. The figure Steve Clarneys has never developed into a series heroes such as Conan or Kull of Atlantis Howard. The character remains quite interchangeable in the original story - it corresponds to the typical adventurer stereotype that at that time so much appreciated Howard's readership. Thanks to the voice of the character but Pampels acquired - not least because of associations with Indiana Jones - much more detail than has been the case in Howard's story. Titania Medien has therefore done everything right.
Why then still only four stars? For me, a small weak point is the extreme linearity of the story. So there is little twists - only a kind of deus ex machina brings even a surprising moment one, but without achieving a 'wow' factor - precisely because unpredictable to the listener. In this respect, the original story is not necessarily one of Howard's best works. It is a little typical Pulp unit fare, which is indeed nice to read and also a few allusions to Lovecraft Mythos has - but otherwise leaves no special effect in the reader. The implementation as a radio play of course to fight even with this flaw - although here really done a good job and a fun work was delivered. Therefore (good) four star ...

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