Eden, Abominations, Spiders, Carousing, Ghosts, and More

E-Fiction
At Manybooks, Mark Clifton's short novel Eight Keys to Eden (1960).

"One minute after the regular report call from the planet Eden was overdue, the communications operator summoned his supervisor. His finger hesitated over the key reluctantly, then he gritted his teeth and pressed it down. The supervisor came boiling out of his cubicle, half-running down the long aisle between the forty operators hunched over their panels."

In many free e-book formats HERE.





Also at Manybooks, "The Jupiter Weapon" by Charles L. Fontenay. First published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories March 1959.

He was a living weapon of destruction—immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. There was only one question: Was he human?

In many free e-book formats HERE.


And up at Fantasy Magazine, a classic fantasy reprint "Merry Christmas" by Stephen Leacock (1914).
“My Dear Young Friend,” said Father Time, as he laid his hand gently upon my shoulder, “you are entirely wrong.”

Online HERE.



Audio Fiction
Transmissions from Beyond has up its thirteenth podcast with "The Last Reef" by Gareth L Powell, read by Bob Eccles. Originally published in Interzone 202, February 2006. 55 minutes.

Streaming and in MP3 HERE.





And Radio Tales of the Strange & Fantastic is now playing Quiet, Please "The Thing on the Fourble Board"

"An oil drilling operation releases a living abomination from the depths of the planet. Often considered the best episode of the Quiet, Please series (certainly its most infamous), and one of the great classics of radio horror." - OTR Plotspot.

In MP3 HERE.



Gaming
The Free RPG Blog links to a ton of free paper minis online, looks at the free City Map Generator for Windows application, and more HERE.

Jeff's Gameblog has a useful, and rather amusing, Carousing Mishaps table online HERE.

The Core Mechanic has a 4th edition skill challenge "Flush Out a Spy" online HERE.

And Geek Orthodox has D&D and Heroquest stats for some Heroscape figures (with pictures so you don't actually need the figures) online HERE.


Video
Newly up at the Internet Archive, Spider Baby starring Lon Chaney Jr. A "classic" horror film. Not to be confused with Spiderbabe starring Misty Mundae nor the Christmas song "Santa Baby."

"In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop" -IMDb

In ogg, MPEG, and MPEG4 HERE.



Comics
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has the first full Flash Gordon adventure by Alex Raymond. A beautifully drawn and very influential comic strip.


Online HERE.




The Horrors of it All has another cool ghost story "A Night in Black Knoll" from Adventures into the Unknown #13

Free online HERE.







And Crosseyed Cyclops has issues numbers one and two of Gold Key's adaptation of The Time Tunnel.


Available in rar fornat HERE.







Other Cool
Variety SF has several interesting stories linked. A link and brief review of Charles Platt's "The Gnirut Test" is HERE. Gavin Raine's flash story "The Time Traveler" is looked at HERE. And Zeashan Zaidi's "Parivartan" (tr "Change") is HERE, though the Google translation is a bit rough.









And Free Listens review and links to a free online audio version of the classic Christmas ghost story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

The review and link are HERE.