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Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu

Created by Julian Simpson

If you missed the campaign, now is your chance to get on board. The show is planned for release in early 2027. All physical items will ship shortly thereafter. PLEASE NOTE: Shipping will be charged separately, when items are ready to go.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Pledge Tier preview...
4 months ago – Mon, May 18, 2026 at 07:26:01 AM

Before I get into this, there is a slightly more thorough version, with some tantalising merch images, over at https://www.pleasantgreen.co.uk/pledge-tiers-and-housekeeping/

We can now measure the time until launch in hours, and it's getting a little fraught here! I thought I'd take this opportunity to preview the pledge tiers that will be available when the campaign goes live on Wednesday 20th, at 12PM London time, and to do any other bits and pieces of useful housekeeping.

Pledge Tiers

Here's how they stand at the moment, You'd be wise to read the real thing carefully on the day, because I can't promise there won't be some movement within these between now and then:

Cultist
— £19. The series, digitally. If you just want the show, this is your tier.

Historian
— £49. The series in hi-res Dolby Atmos, plus the PDF scriptbook and a digital dossier of in-world case documents. You also get instant access to "The Secret History of the World" which is going to be my filing system for research, ideas, notes and scribbles throughout the process of putting this show together - I'll be filling that up as we go.

Adventurer
— £99. Everything above, plus a physical softcover scriptbook and the deluxe six-disc CD box set.

Pendragon Club
— £299. Everything above, plus a physical case-file of in-world documents and the Pendragon Club Membership Pack, which already has some serious goodies planned for it.

Librarian
— £499. Everything above, plus five Collectors Edition hardback script-books, one per Lovecraft Investigations season: A4, full-colour, Smyth-sewn, with full scripts, new essays, behind-the-scenes photographs, notebook scans etc. Signed bookplate included for the Call of Cthulhu book.

Red Hook Stories Investor
— £999. Everything above, plus an Associate Producer credit, a Red Hook Stories t-shirt, a ticket to the Live Reading (should we reach that stretch goal), and monthly live Zoom calls with yours truly throughout the writing process.

Executive Producer
- £4,999

Everything in previous tiers PLUS:
  • You will be named as Executive Producer on the show and all relevant materials. You get two tickets to the Live Show, should the stretch goal fire.
  • You will become part of the Pleasant Green Universe. We'll work together to create a canonical character connected to the events of The Call of Cthulhu: named for you, or for someone of your choosing, and real within the world of the show. How visible they are, and what form their involvement takes, we'll work out together. You'll receive their Department of Works file: classified, personalised, and yours.
  • You will also receive a numbered limited edition print by Carl Pugh, the artist behind some of the most striking imagery in the Pleasant Green Universe. It arrives pre-mounted, with a card addressed to you and signed by the full cast and crew set into the mount below. Hang it up. You made this show happen.
  • Finally, you'll join a small, separate monthly conversation with me. Not the group call. Just the Executive Producers, a considerably shorter guest list, and a more personal conversation about how the production is going.

And then, on top of all that, we have tote bags, T-shirts, hoodies, baseball caps...

Housekeeping

For those of you who live a long way away (from me, I mean, you presumably live incredibly close to you), I have made the decision to cap shipping at a somewhat reasonable rate (you start trying to ship five 2kg books to Australia and you don't even want to know what that costs!); I'll pick up the tab for a chunk of the delivery cost so that no one is excessively penalised for their generosity. 

I have also enabled paying in instalments, which means the more expensive tiers have the option of paying in four monthly instalments, rather than all in one go. As I understand it (read the small print!), there is no interest charged on this, so it's not credit, just a payment plan to make higher tiers more accessible.

We also have some instant rewards set up (again, subject to change) that trigger if you back in the first 48 hours, or if you backed Crowley. I'm not ENTIRELY sure I trust that last one, because Crowley was done through Kickstarter. Backerkit MAY know who you are, or they may not. And you might be using a different e-mail. Do me a favour; if you're a previous backer and you DON'T get a reward, drop me a line and we'll figure it out.

Stretch goals (called Achievements in Backerkit) are set up and you'll see those when the campaign launches. The one worth mentioning, though, is the one that hits when we go BIG: at £250,000, we drop the Peck Lectures into everyone's package - it turns out that, some years ago, Eleanor Peck gave a series of short lectures on various aspects of folklore. We have uncovered those recordings and will be making them available if the campaign goes stratospheric.

Lastly, a few people on Crowley said that they wished they could give more (love those people!). It occurred to me to set higher tiers, but then there was the question of what to put in them and how much they should go for, etc etc. I know there are a few people here who really love what we make and would like to be more involved, so what I can do, in consultation with you, is create a bespoke tier that could allow for greater investment in return for more targeted rewards. If this is interesting, or something you want to explore in more detail, drop me a line at [email protected]

Some good news on shipping if you live a long way away
5 months ago – Sat, May 16, 2026 at 07:17:04 AM

Hello Distant People!

This week I have been digging into estimated shipping rates for our pledges. and OH BOY some of these are pricey!!! The heavier items (and some of the items are HEAVY!) are really really really expensive to ship to places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada. 

We had this issue on Crowley, and I know it was off-putting for a lot of our friends in those places. So I got out my calculator and started doing some sums, and I reckon we can split the shipping with you. I'll take the hit on a lot of it, for people across the world who want to order big, because I don't think it's right that shipping costs (especially given the stupid cause of a lot of those costs right now) should stop you from buying the stuff you want.

So when the campaign launches, you'll see asterisks on the shipping table and they show the caps we're putting on shipping rates for the bigger orders to the furthest places. The table looks a lot less crazy as a result, and I think everything becomes a lot more reasonable.

Julian

A sneak peak at stretch goals...
5 months ago – Wed, May 13, 2026 at 09:22:36 AM

A lot of thought, and a fistful of headache pills, has gone into these stretch goals. So here they are... 
  • At £85000, we are fully-funded and we are making the show. That's not a stretch goal, that's the target, but it's a good place to start and we need to keep our eye on that.
  • At £100,000, TBA - working on something kind of interesting here...
  • At £125,000, the CD set miraculously transforms into an unbelievably handsome hardback media-book, produced by the peerless Breed Media, containing all manner of written material and artwork with the CDs in pocket-pages. Everyone who has already bought one will get the upgrade, as will all new purchasers.
  • At £150,000, we put on a LIVE SHOW. At a London venue, the first two episodes of The Call of Cthulhu will be performed live by the cast, followed by an on-stage Q&A and questions from the audience. We don't know when or where this will be yet, so we will ask you to register your interest on the backer survey the end of the campaign, and you will then get early access to tickets. A proportion of the proceeds will go to the Two Bays Trust charity in Cornwall.

A Brief History of the Pendragon Club
5 months ago – Sat, May 09, 2026 at 08:07:23 AM

For those of you subscribing to the Call of Cthulhu Pre-Launch podcast stream, a small treat this afternoon - a raw recording of a bonus episode from the forthcoming season. Kennedy dives into the oblique and mysterious history of The Pendragon Club.

The on-ramp trailer for new listeners
5 months ago – Tue, May 05, 2026 at 11:59:45 AM

A thousand apologies to anyone who is getting this twice. A thousand more to anyone who had it dumped into their spam because I am apparently unable to write an update that doesn't sound like I'm running some kind of Russian bot-farm. And a million apologies to everyone who DID see the original update but was unable to comment on it because I had accidentally set comments to "Backer only" when the campaign has not yet launched.

I think that covers my apologies to everyone? If something completely different from any of the above scenarios happened to you, please accept my apologies for that too.

The reason for the original update was to highlight the new trailer that we just released for Season Five. If you haven't taken a listen, for any of the aforementioned reasons, please do. We are also, this very evening, recording a special bonus episode of the new season, which will hit the podcast feed in the next day or so, exlusively for followers on Backerkit. I am told that if I add another link in here, the Spam Police will once again wrestle this update to the ground and needlessly taser it, so let me just say that if you're not already subscribed to the Call of Cthulhu promo stream, the link is on the main page of the Backerkit Launch site (or just above this, if you're reading this online).

Anyway, that was it. Sorry again. I will try to do better.

Julian