Late Night Extras

Just a few cool items before I go to bed.
E-Book
New from Manybooks and Project Gutenberg is Owen Wister's mostly forgotten novella The Dragon of Wantley, a young readers, humor, fantasy, satire that seems somewhat reminiscent of J. R. R. Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham. A very unusual book.

Available from Manybooks.net Here and Project Gutenberg Here. (Manybooks has better formats but the HTML version at Project Gutenberg has cool illustrations).


E-Zine
Journey Planet, a new e-fanzine, has released its first issue for free download in PDF format Here. An interesting and eccentric (is there any other type of fanzine?) look at the British fan scene. Available Here.






Audio
CraftLit: A Podcast for Crafters Who Love Books is an unusual podcast, but one with a few stories of interest here. Despite its Knitting!?! theme, any podcast that makes complete audio books of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Tristan and Isolde, Frankenstein, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is cool in my book.

The MP3s are available for free download Here. (along the right hand side of the blog)

Comics
WOWIO has issue #1 of Wargod available for free online reading and inexpensive PDF download Here.

"Wargod is resurrected and sent to Earth to continue his age old conflict with the nefarious god Sutekh and protect all of mankind from any impending evil. A new group of super beings have proclaimed themselves to be the protectors of the planet...and now they have Wargod in their sights! He is our worlds last hope.... Beware the Gods are coming! "


Golden Age Comics has added even more thrilling jungle adventures with issues 24, 25, 70, and 97 of Fiction House' Jungle Comics. In these pre-code comics, Ka'a'nga the Tarzan clone and other brave adventures face danger in deep jungles. Be warned that while most stories are acceptable, a few contain unpleasant stereotyping.

The new issues, and many others are available in CBZ/CBR format Here. (Free membership is required).



Other Cool Items
Marooned: Science Fiction books on Mars has a brief excerpt of an interview with SF author Matthew Corradi talking about John Carter of Mars. I don't generaly link to interviews, but I think Corradi's last point is extremely important and also because five John Carter books are available as free e-books from Manybooks.net Here. The exerpt is Here.





Monster Memories has a fun post on the 1958 film The Colossus of New York. With personal memories, scans of lobby cards and a magazine article, and a clip from the film, this is a rather interesting post. Read it Here.

Free Listens, a cool site that "publishes weekly reviews of free human-read audiobooks available on the web" has a few recent reviews of QD appropriate audiobooks including; "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, "The Odyssey" by Homer (the Robert Fitzgerald translation), and "Gawayne and the Green Knight" by Charles Miner Lewis, a modern retelling of the Middle English Arthurian fantasy. All the above links go to the reviews, which contain links to the MP3s.