Peter Beagle Audio, Headless Horrors, and More Coolness

The first part of today's free genre items featuring Audio Fiction, Comics, and other cool links. (E-Fiction and Gaming will be up later).


Audio Fiction
PodCastle has its latest episode of audio fantasy up with "Gordon, the Self-Made Cat" by Peter Beagle, read by Barry Deutsch. (A fun little story).

"One evening, when Gordon was only a few weeks old, his next-to-eldest sister was sent out to see if anything interesting had been left open in the pantry. She never returned. Gordon’s father shrugged sadly and spread his front paws, and said, 'The cat.'"

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Video
Divers and sundry has Beyond Tomorrow (1940) - a "Christmas ghost story. "

"Three ghosts try to help two young lovers whom they knew when alive." - IMDB.

Online HERE.





Comics
The Horrors of it All continues its "3-Day look at The Best of Severed Heads" with "Your Head for Mine" from Journey into Fear #10.



Online HERE.





Fortress Of Fortitude has "By Degrees" a B&W horror story from Vampirella #68. (A horror story involving Christmas shopping, how apropos).



Online HERE.




And The Groovy Age of Horror has "Night of the Snow Vampire" from Vampire Tales, April 1974. (PG-13ish site)

In Flash format HERE.




Other Cool
The Cimmerian has a lengthy look at magical swords and Christopher Tolkien's translation of The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise.


Online HERE.



The Website at the End of the Universe asks "How many books is too many?" (Impossible! One can never have enough books, let alone too many. If you run out of space than switch to e-books -or buy more space if you can afford it!)


Online HERE.




And Free Speculative Fiction Online has updated their free fiction list with stories by Poul Anderson, Christopher Anvil, Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton, Eric Flint, Simon Haynes, Elizabeth Moon, Mike Resnick, Mack Reynolds, and Vandana Singh.

Online HERE [via SF Signal]