Okay, you are going to have to trust us on this one. We had a fun idea and ran with it. Someone in the Broadsword Studio writers room said, "Wouldn't it be fun to do The Great Gatsby in the style of Conan?" And as we discussed how amusing it sounded, we all got more and more excited. It just fits so *perfectly*. So the team said, "Why not? Let's do it!"
So we did.
And starting this week we introduce "In The Style Of..."
What if the greatest stories ever told were forged in the fires of a different creator?
Welcome to In the Style Of..., an immersive short-form audio drama series that collides beloved literary classics with wildly unexpected authorial voices.
In our premiere season, we journey to the shores of West Egg—but not the one you know. We’ve taken F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and stripped away the jazz and the glitter, replacing it with the heavy, blood-soaked, mythic dread of pulp legend Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian).
Here, the Roaring Twenties are dead. Tom Buchanan is an apex warlord, the Valley of Ashes is a primordial wasteland, and Jay Gatsby is a doomed, fanatical acolyte reaching for a green light that burns with dark magic. Put on your headphones and step into the literary multiverse. This is classic fiction, reborn