| Welcome to "The Mask of Inanna" |
"This can't be how it ends..."
 In the early 1950s, Leonard Allen was the producer and host of After Dark, a very popular, independently-produced suspense-horror radio show. His on-air persona, Dr. Damien Crask, was practically a household name. But when his best friend and business partner, Robert Stroud, stole the scripts and decamped for Hollywood to produce his own show, After Dark lost its biggest sponsor and Allen, feeling betrayed, gave up. After Dark died, unfinished.
Fifty years later Allen, dying in a state-run nursing home, is approached by the mysterious David Lewis, a smooth-talking businessman who gives him a strange offer: the role of caretaker and tour guide for an historic lighthouse off the New England coast. Allen is unable to resist the lure of a mystery and, when invigorated by a sudden improvement in his health, he accepts the job.
But for Allen, settling into his new home overlooking the stormy sea below, it all seems too perfect. Just who are the people of Sea Robin Island and why do some of them seem familiar? Why would they through so much effort to get one, very specific, old man for such a mundane job? Why does Scottie Harper, a very useful, technically-minded teenage girl, show up on his doorstep just in time for them to discover a disused radio transmission facility behind a door locked from the inside? And why is it so important for Dr. Damien Crask to return to the airwaves, long after America has left The Golden Age of Radio behind?
Allen is determined to get answers, but shortly after he discovers the bizarre truth, he learns that the plan is destined to go horribly, horribly wrong. Sea Robin Island will become a wasteland and face demons far greater than any mortal enemy if something isn't done. But how can one old man and one rebellious teenage girl prevent the oncoming wave of destruction?
The world isn't kind to dreamers.
Like any boy of the radio era, Leonard Allen dreamed of hitting it big in New York and Hollywood; to write or host that one big show that would make everyone notice. Even after he had his chance at both, that dream still burns inside him. He's always been able to spark the divine somewhere in his work. And he's finally been noticed.
He doesn't know the lengths people will go to take advantage of such gifts. So when the mysterious David Lewis asked him finish his classic radio drama After Dark after a half-century, Len didn't realize it wasn't as simple as that. The truth is that Lewis served a more powerful entity than even public opinion: the goddess Inanna, Sumerian patron of both love and war.
Sometimes, a god wants a sacrifice.
Sometimes, a god wants praise and devotion.
But the most fickle, and the most dangerous,
are those who demand a show.
Journey into the creative mind of award-winning author Alicia E. Goranson, as she explores the nature of power and those who covet it in a genre-busting work that blends classic 50's radio drama, tense, paranoia-fueled thrillers, and the intimate knowledge born of a career working behind-the-scenes in the performing arts. Marvel at a stunning collection of award-winning actors, The Post-Meridian Radio Players, as they provide the voice and heart to a cast of dozens. Follow Allen and Lewis as their ideological conflict threatens to consume their friends and family, a battle neither can yield.
Is magic simply a tool, or a living thing to be respected? Does man have a right to make demands of the gods? What lengths would you go to for the power to protect what you love? Whatever you believe, don't get caught out after dark, in THE MASK OF INANNA!
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