Big Day!

A very good day for free genre items! I have found so many that I had to leave nearly half for a second post today (or I would have never finished) and John keeps sending me more. Huzzah! So baring power failure or some other disaster, there will a good-sized second post today. Tons of cool stuff in this post, too!


E-Fiction
Planet Magazine has new fiction up "The Tears of Lakshmi" by Ian James.

"Most wheelers had little to no experience of insects, creating the odd psychological consequence that their nightmares lacked insects too, something that troubled contemplative psychologists, as insects were an established archetype, and depopulated nightmares were bad for the psyche"

Online HERE.





At Manybooks, Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes (Ghost Stories) by Various Authors (Algernon Blackwood, Montague Rhodes James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, eyc.) 1920.

"To-day the case for the ghost as an element in fiction is an exceedingly strong one. There has indeed sprung into being within a couple of decades a new school of such writers. Nowadays almost every fictionist of account produces one good thriller at least of this sort."

In many free e-book formats HERE.

365tomorrows has flash SF "Trench Warfare" by Steve Smith.

"Parks eased the stick back as the rear of the enemy battalion came into view, giving up altitude and leveling again with the startled ground troops within a half kilometer of the streaking inverted craft."

Online HERE.


And at Every Day Fiction "The Sub-Basement" by Aaron Polson. a creepy/cool little story.

“The man in the basement said there was lots to be scared of.”

Online HERE.


Audio Fiction
StarShipSofa has its latest episode of Aural Delights up with,

Editorial: by Tony C Smith.
Poem: "Again The Night" by O G Clark.
Fact: "Early Utopia" by Amy H Sturgis.
Main Fiction: "Looking Down On You" by Ian Watson.
Sofanuts Update: by Mark Bormann.
New Titles: by Tony C Smith.
Serial Part 2 of 3: "Temptation" by David Brin.

Narrators: Julie Davis, Kenny Park

Online HERE or in direct MP3 download HERE.



Transmissions from Beyond has up a new podcast, number fourteen "Knowledge" by Grace Dugan, read by the author. First published in Interzone 211, July & August 2007. 45 minutes.

Available streaming and in MP3 format HERE.







And at ScottSigler.com, the rather cool Contagious podcast continues with part 5, read by the author. In free MP3 download HERE.










Gaming
The Core Mechanic has "The Skill Challenges of War - Part 12: Forcing a Surrender" online HERE.

And RPGCentric has an interesting two-part "The Seven Deadly Sins and Gaming." Part One is HERE; Part Two is HERE.





Video
AMC TV is now streaming all seventeen original episodes of the cult classic The Prisoner. [via SF Signal, Monster Rally, Divers & Sundry, etc.]


Online, with extras, HERE.






Music
Magic Carpet Burn has a rare album of monster music featuring "Dracula Drag," "Mummy Mambo," "Werewolf Waltz," and other monster songs.



Available HERE.






Art
Paint & Brush, the blog of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell has a rather awesome John Carter of Mars painting up HERE [via SF Signal and Marooned: Science Fiction books on Mars ].

There are a few more good/paintings or their blog, though many are PG-13.







And Geek Orthodox has a small gallery of Earl Norem art from a 1983 Dungeons & Dragons storybook The Forest of Enchantment.


Online HERE.





Comics
The Horrors of it All has "Tryst with Terror" the last story from the “lost” issue of Adventures into Darkness #15. The first of the mechanical women to appear in today's comics.


Online HERE





Fortress of Fortitude has a rather bizarre story “Jonah" from Weird Tales Of The Future #6. If watching The Incredible Shrinking Man doesn't convince you not to build that shrinking ray, this story certainly will.


Online HERE.





Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has three more cool Alien Worlds stories.

"Head of the Class" from issue #1 is HERE, " It All Fits" from issue #7 is HERE, and a real gem, William F. Nolan's " . . .And Miles To Go Before I Sleep" from issue #8 is HERE.





Diversions of the Groovy Kind has "Holo Cost" from Creepy #104. Cyborg women, sorcery, war, and robots, all in a five page story!



Online HERE.






Cool-Mo-Dee has another cool looking issue of Grimm's Ghost Stories up, number 28.


Available in CBR format HERE.








And at Crosseyed Cyclops, a trilogy of classic horror, three issues of The Unseen.



Available for download HERE.





Other Cool
At BestScienceFictionStories.com, Rusty reviews and links to a free online copy of Greg Wickenhofer's flash fiction story "The Home Team."

The toaster remained purple, and asked, “Why do people like toast?”

The review and link are HERE.



And at SF Signal, Lisa Paitz Spindler reviews Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi, which is freely available online.

"The space-faring Yherajk people have come to Earth to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. Gaining humanity's trust isn't easy when you look like a B-movie terror, and Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal."

The review is HERE and the book is HERE.