This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Scorched Earth

For a story about H.P. Lovecraft there was a lot of ways it could have gone wrong but surprisingly, it didn't. I'm not an expert on Lovecraft but this story seemed like somewhat of a loveletter to parts of his work while still acknowleding the flaws of both him and his work. It was generally quite interesting to have a story tackle the idea of "seperating art from the artist" as that's something that comes up a lot in Who.

It's not without it's flaws, I do think they get a bit carried away ripping into Lovecraft which as fun as it is to listen to does bog down the story a little. I like that they explored Lovecraft's background and did more than just say "he's racist". I can see why people might dislike this story or even question why a person this awful even needs a spotlight like this.

Overall though, I found it pretty good.

Next Story: Together in Eclectic Dreams

In modern Big Finish, you can tell when a story wasn't working if the individual parts of a multi-part story are consistently less than half an hour. We are thrown right into this story with little explanation, barely taking time to introduce the Doctor's new friend Calypso. HP Lovecraft is dragged through the dirt for his racism, but often his whiny voice is eye-roll inducing. I love this TARDIS team, but Flip is more grating than usual (she's wonderful in the preceding stories) mentioning her big cousin Darren, you'd have expected her to mature more by now. Ironically Randolph Carter is a pleasant presence in the story, and holds a lot of it together. Still, not all together a bad listen. I would've gone three stars but the Doctor's dressing down of Lovecraft at the end notches it another half star.

More than any, big finish story Lovecraft Invasion rings as a hollow attempt to critique and analyze Lovecraft as a human being and writer.

With clunky dialogue about his personal beliefs and a random character with no introduction or any particular interesting qualities.

Lovecraft Invasion lacks any depth to warrant it's runtime, and especially the price. With a valley of references to Lovecrafts work shoehorned in, than dropped at a notice. Especially with characters explaining what they look like for the audience. Taking us out of the action to go. "That's not how people talk."

What a disappointment ultimately, there's brief moments where we see some form of an emotional development for the characters introduced in this story. But it's not enough to combat. "Lovecraft racist, Lovecraft bad."