Arkham Tales and More

E-Fiction
The first issue of the new quarterly weird fiction magazine Arkham Tales is out and is available for download in PDF format.

This issue features fiction by Mike W. Barr, Scott Bastedo, Steve Calvert, Robert Masterson, Benjamin W. Olson, Derek Rutherford, Jenny Schwartz, and Jeffery Scott Sims.


For free download HERE. [via Monster Rally and The B-Masters Cabal]

(Their server seems a bit sluggish today so it might take a couple of tries).




John Joseph Adams (who has posted a spooky book trailer from his zombie anthology, The Living Dead) has posted 5 more free zombie stories from the book [See also: the SF Signal review]:

• "In Beauty, Like the Night" by Norman Partridge.
• "Malthusian's Zombie" by Jeffrey Ford.
• "Sparks Fly Upward" by Lisa Morton.
• "Followed" by Will McIntosh.
• "Passion Play" by Nancy Holder.

[via the ever vigilant SF Signal]



Polu Texni has Part IV (the last installment) of "The Slaying of Winter" by Vera Nazarian.

They stopped to eat and sleep, when the crescent of the sun came to barely skim the horizon. The Northern sun never truly rose or set, knew Iliss, but in her wildness of heart, she had not kept proper track of the seasons, and was not sure if it was true Summer or Winter. It mattered little to her single-minded purpose.

Omline HERE.



And new fiction at Apex:

• "Under the Dryer" by Fran Friel.
• "A Place of Snow Angels" by Matt Wallace.
• "Captive Girl" by Jennifer Pelland.
• "Something Wet" by James F. Reilly.

[via SF Signal]



Audio Fiction
PodCastle has up its 21st miniature "The Princess and the…" by Marie Brennan, read by Ann Leckie. Rated R


Streaming and in MP3 HERE.




Maria Lectrix has part three of the science fiction short “The Risk Profession” by Donald E. Westlake, read by Maureen O'Brien.

“The Risk Profession” continues, as our insurance claims investigator keeps on poking around — even when a gun’s poked into his face.

Streaming and in MP3 HERE.







Zombie Astronaut has more audio goodies including a radio drama of the classic novel Metropolis and four episodes of The Night Watch.

All online HERE.



Gaming
Monsters and Manuals has a new AD&D demigod Govgim Dahl, and details about his cultists online HERE.

And The Core Mechanic concludes the five-part look at clerics in D&D with "The New Cleric is the Old Cleric (Part 5)" online HERE.





Comics
The Horrors of it All has another cool story from Black Magic Vol. 4 #6

This one should remind you of one particular modern horror movie.


Online, with some poorly aimed advertisements (is demographic research a new phenomenon?) HERE.





Cool-Mo-Dee has Grimm's Ghost Stories #2 available for download in CBZ format.

More ghosts today.


Available HERE.









Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a cool B&W, SF comic story "The Quatermass Xperiment."


Available for online reading HERE.








The Golden Age of Comic Books has up its 59th podcast featuring a look a Phantom Lady. Also there are two golden age Phantom lady stories in PDF format.

All HERE.

And Diversions of the Groovy Kind is having a "Cheap Detectives Week" today featuring a pair of stories from the long defunct Atlas Comics' Police Action.


Perhaps I'm stretching a bit, but pulp-style adventure is a broad concept.


For online reading HERE.






Other Cool
Dark Worlds looks at, and links to, "Skull-Face" by Robert E. Howard, HERE and "The Monster of Lake La Metrie" by Wardon Allan Curtis HERE.




Free SF Reader looks at, and links to Space Platform (1953) by Murray Leinster HERE.

The site links to many, many other SF stories HERE.



Variety SF reviews and links to a free online version of Harry Bates' novelette "Farewell to the Master." First published in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1940 and later filmed as The Day the Earth Stood Still.


The review and link are HERE.








SF Signal asks "How Can Science Fiction Magazines Be Successful in the Digital Age?"

Online HERE.



And Marooned: Science Fiction books on Mars has Welcome to Mars, a series of reflections examining the concept of “the future” and telling the “story of weird science, strange events and even stranger beliefs, set in an age when the possibilities for human development seemed almost limitless.”


Available in MP3s HERE.