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."