Quartermass 2, Ghost Stories, and More

Some online freebies!

E-Fiction
Manybooks.net has Shapes that Haunt the Dusk, an anthology of ghost stories edited by Heney Mills Alden and William Dean Howells (1891).

This features ghost stories by Howard Pyle, and other Victorian era writers.

In free e-book formats HERE.

Audio Fiction
Escape Pod has another pair of very short SF audio-stories.

"Skyscrapers" by Rachel Swirsky, read by Ann Leckie. 3 minutes.

Summers, I sleep on rooftops. Under smokestacks, beside stairs, in the sudden green of precarious gardens.

HERE.

And "Karakuri" by Gideon Fostick, read by Dave Leckie. 3 minutes.

Bill had no heart for this Karakuri, left behind in the empty house when his love had gone. Small and exquisite, propped at an angle on the tatami floor mat, it was the toughest puzzle he’d known.

Available streaming and in MP3 HERE.


Video
Divers and Sundry has Quartermass 2 (1957) available for online streaming in nine parts.

Professor Quatermass, still shook up from London's refusal to proceed with his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar - meteorites crashing down? - IMDb

Online HERE.









Gaming
Osric, the first edition AD&D clone is now available in a greatly expanded (from 129 t0 402 pages) with monster, magic items, more art, and much more.



I a free PDF HERE. [via Kellri]










Art
Trixie's Treats has another very cool gallery of art by pulp artist Earle Bergey.


Online HERE.









Comics
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a B&W adaptation of Dracula Online HERE.

And a devilish tale "The Pit of Fear" originally from Weird Worlds #10 online HERE.






Crosseyed Cyclops has a few more cool comics in CBR format including;

Tales of Suspence #1,
Adventures into Terror #11,
Tales of Suspence#10,
and Amazing Adventures#1-3.











Diversions of the Groovy Kind has a Worlds Unknown adaptation of the Harry Bates short story, "Farewell to the Master" (published in the October, 1940, issue of Astounding). This is the story that was made into The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

Online HERE.






And Cool-Mo-Dee has Grimm's Ghost Stories #14 available for download in CBR format.


Available HERE.









Other Cool
A Star Trek double feature. Adventures in Nerdliness has an Orion Slave Girl post featuring several photos. Online HERE (PG-ish).

And My Star Trek Scrapbook has "Keep On Trekin': The mad Star Trek Musical," from the Oct. 1976 issue of Mad Magazine online HERE.




And Famous Monsters of Filmland also gets a couple of posts. Crosseyed Cyclops has several issues of the magazine available for download in RAR format HERE.

And Trixie's Treats has a gallery of classic covers Famous Monsters of Filmland HERE.