Michael Moorcock Audio, Christopher Lee, and More

A very good day for audio fiction (A Moorcock story, and Lee reading) and comics, but no new e-fiction, so far - I'll keep looking.


Audio Fiction
StarShipSofa has the 52nd episode of Aural Delights up featuring:

Editorial: Tony C Smith
Poetry: "Cabazon" by Samantha Henderson
Flash Fiction: "Godzilla’s 12 Step Program" by Joe R Lansdale
Fact: "Science News" by JJ Campanella
SF ART: StarShipSofa Art Cover No 1 by Skeet
Main Fiction: "Portrait in Ivory" by Michael Moorcock

Narrators: Julie Davis, Larry Santoro, Grant Stone

Available HERE or right click HERE to save the MP3.


Pseudopod has its 118th episode of audio-horror featuring "Lala Salama" by Gill Ainsworth, read by Heather Welliver.

Ess stood. “Kill my baby! For what?” She dropped a couple of shillings at his feet, and then stomped across the dirt track to her car and Kazungu who was waiting to drive her home. As she climbed into the vehicle she shouted, “To keep you and your stupid superstitions in business?”

Streaming and in Mp3 download HERE.



Zombie Astronaut has many more episodes of Johnny Chase: Secret Agent Of Space.

All available for MP3 download HERE.




Digital Meltdown has Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales featuring:

1. The Black Cat (1843 - by Edgar Allen Poe) 2. The Man of Science (1892 - by Jerome K. Jerome) 3. John Charrington's Wedding (1893 - by Edith Nesbit) 4. The Man & the Snake (1891 - by Ambrose Bierce) 5. The Monkey's Paw (1902 - by W.W. Jacobs)

Online HERE [via Crosseyed Cyclops]




And RevCast has "Cookies Have No Souls" by Ryan C. Thomas, read by Matthew Bey. Previously published in Space Squid. 5 minutes.

Available in MP3 HERE.







Gaming
Heroquest is a fun, old tabletop fantasy boardgame that is available as a free windows game.

"It focuses on four different heroes working through various quests, encountering foes ranging from goblins to chaos warriors. You can play the original campaign, additional quests or wander the self generating magic dungeon. A user friendly quest editor is also included. Note: this is not the HeroQuest game published by Gremlin in 1992, but a new Allegro/DirectX game"

Available, along with many quest packs, a manual, and more HERE. [via Adventures In Nerdliness]



Comics
The Horrors of it All has "Werewolf " from Out of the Shadows #14 as well as a one-page "Were-Wolf of Paris."

I'd make some jesting furry comment here, but that story starring Karswell is still too fresh in my mind.


Online HERE.





Fortress Of Fortitude has an odd story by comics great Wally Wood. "Animan" is a story of an unusual being and his encounter with civilization.


Online HERE.






Diversions of the Groovy Kind has a B&W survival/adventure story. "The Sting of Death!" is from Thrilling Adventure Stories #1.

Online HERE.






Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine has a PG/PG-13ish Bill Ward comic.

"Pussycat, Bill Ward's voluptuous agent of S.C.O.R.E., takes us around the world while she gets off...the planet, that is. This is yet another classic from the 1968 one-shot, Pussycat."

Online HERE.



Cool-Mo-Dee continues with the cool run of Grimm's Ghost Stories (the more the merrier). Number eleven is available in CBZ format.


Available HERE.











Magic Carpet Burn has a humorous take on furries, I mean on Werewolves in "The Wolf Man" from Crazy.


Online HERE.








Crosseyed Cyclops has a few more pre-code horror comics. Uncanny Tales #2 is HERE, four issues of Marvel Tales numbers 104, 118, 127, and 139 are all HERE, and Adventures into Weird Worlds #14 is HERE


All are in CBR/CBZ format.









Pulp Sunday has a twisted/humorous take on Thanksgiving in the one page "Mama Bates is cooking..." ~ A Thanksgiving Special.


You'll never look at Turkey Day the same way. Online HERE.




Other Cool
Variety SF reviews and links to one of Mary Shelley's lesser known works "Transformation" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Think twice before exchanging your body with an evil magician!


The review and link are HERE.






BestScienceFictionStories.com reviews and links to a free online version of "The Dyslexicon" by Carl Frederick.
“The Dyslexicon” is a 2008 science fiction short story by Carl Frederick. It is about a dyslexic robot who is trying to join a geek organization.

The review and link are HERE.



More cool Star Trek items today. My Star Trek Scrapbook has a Starlog article on the animated Star Trek (ST:TAS) with a complete episode guide HERE.

Dark Worlds links to an online Gallery images from J. J. Abrams' upcoming film HERE.

And Nostalgic G has the first look at Leonard Nimoy in the new film HERE.




Cool fantasy author Jim C. Hines has a rather amusing post "If Writing Were Like an RPG" online HERE. [via Grasping for the Wind]




And SF Signal's Mind Meld asks "Who are the most memorable characters in science fiction, fantasy and horror? What makes them so memorable?"

Read answers by well known people and add your own HERE.