Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday and Lots of Free Online Stuff

Today is Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Poe was not only one of the first great American authors, he is still one of the greatest of all time.

E-Fiction
Strange Horizons has a new weekly issue up with

ARTICLE: "Lost Chance: Greek and Chinese Philosophy's Unrealized Romance," by Brian Trent.
"Over the course of two centuries, intellectual luminaries simultaneously emerged in Greece and China. . . . What would have happened had the two met?"

FICTION: "The Shangri-La Affair," by Lavie Tidhar
"It came spilling over Asia like grains of rice measured into a pan. Digital systems were corrupted. Tailor-made viruses swept through urban populations, spread out to villages, sometimes merely killing, sometimes transforming people into ... into other things."

POETRY: "A Guide to the Air-Dependent," by Kaolin Imago Fire
"Focus on the effort wasted / that makes you stronger."

And reviews, online HERE


At Subterranean Press "Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden" By C.S.E. Cooney.

"In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, there was a wonderful garden. There, the moon bloomed white apples on a silver tree. In golden groves the sun grew restless, radiant fruit–the gods’ own food. (Dragons tended these.)"

Online HERE.

Fantasy Magazine has new fiction "The Gnomes Are Coast Guards" by Chantel Tattoli.

"It’s not far-fetched. Oceans have a way of swallowing men and man-made things, it happens: amber tesserae found on a Florida beach can hail from a modern Milwaukee brewery and end up in highbrow contexts."
Online HERE.


At Genrewonk "The Historian's Apprentice" by S. Andrew Swann.

"While I have been accused of being a madwoman, I promise to relate fact, as much as my incomplete memory allows. What events I choose to remember are of perfect clarity and detail. Unfortunately, what I choose to forget is as irretrievable as a unwisely spoken indiscretion."

Online HERE [via SF Signal]





At Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire, part three of the serialized "Easy Money" by Abner Senires.

"I woke, gasping for air. Heart triphammering in my chest. Cold concrete against my back. The smell of the city in my nostrils. Sharp, cold, and metallic."

Online HERE.



In celebration of BSFA award nominations, Escape Velocity has made three of its issues available for free PDF downloads (for a limited time). Tons of free fiction in them.



Available HERE. [via SF Signal]





Audio
Pseudopod has its 125th episode up with "The Interview" by Mike Norris, read by Dani Cutler.

“With eight years property management experience under your belt, I really see no reason to fax over your resume. Tell you what, I’m wide open this morning."

Streaming and in Mp3 download HERE.


Beam Me up has its 140th episode up with part two of "People of Sand and Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Paul Cole.

Available streaming and in Mp3 download HERE.









The Cthulhu Podcast has its 42nd episode up with "The Beast with Five Fingers" by William F. Harvey, read Mark Nelson.

Available in MP3 HERE.







Scott Sigler "Bestselling Author and Failed Pimp" continues to serialize his novel Contagious in both PDF and audiobook (MP3) formats. Mega-cool.

Chapter seven is now available HERE.









SFFaudio has its 21st podcast about science fiction and fantasy audio in which "Jesse and Scott are joined new SFFaudio contributor Carsten Schmitt! It’s a show full of participatory enjoyment and less about equipment love."

Available streaming and in MP3 download HERE.





Revcast has its ninth roundtable

"In this RevCast Roundtable discussion, RevSF co-founders, Joe Crowe and Shane Ivey are joined by Deanna Toxopeus. Together, they festoon the Tree of Woe with all the things that are wrong with sci-fi, fantasy and horror. A mini-intervention is staged and tips on raising Geek children are dispensed."

In MP3 HERE.



And Magic Carpet Burn provides a little musical horror with Dracula's Greatest Hits.


Available for MP3 download HERE.







Comics
Celebrating Poe's birthday in style is Karswell of The Horrors of It All with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from Classics Illustrated #21, "Morella" from Dell Movie Classic #793 (aka Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror), and a one page Poe bio.

All online HERE.

And don't miss the well illustrated "Black Death" from yesterday HERE.





And another Poe classic scanned by Kasrwell is at QuasarDragon II "The Curse of Metzengerstein" from Chilling Tales #16.


Available online HERE.





Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine has some horrors of war in "Two on the Aisle of Death" from Terror Tales #7.


Available online HERE.





Now being posted online in free daily installments, Colleen Doran's award winning graphic novel series A Distant Soil.

Online HERE [via SF Signal]




Fortress of Fortitude has "The Menace Of R-Day" from Weird Thrillers #1. The "R" being, of course, robot.

Online HERE.






And Cool-Mo-Dee has a pair of classic Gold Key comics, Grimm's Ghost Stories numbers 39 and 40 available in CBR.

Issue #39 is HERE and issue #40 is HERE.










Art
Dark Worlds has a cool gallery of Edgar Rice Burroughs covers from the classic pulps Fantastic Adventures and Amazing Stories online HERE and a smaller gallery of Harry Roland pulp/fantasy art (with a link for more) HERE.








And Golden Age Comic Book Stories has a cool gallery of "misc Science Fiction Digest & Paperback Covers" online HERE.











Other Cool
Crosseyed Cyclops has some very cool scans of the pulp SF magazine Amazing Stories. Ten complete issues are available in rar packs (CBR format). Very cool. All are available HERE.

Also there is issue number two of Forrest J. Ackerman's Monsterama. In CBR format HERE.









BestScienceFictionStories.com, always a great source for finding free fiction, reviews and links to a free online copy of "Paying It Forward" by Michael A. Burstein.

Online HERE.




And The Cimmerian has a lengthy look at Edgar Allan Poe in "Bicentennial Bash at the Dank Tarn of Auber!" available for online reading HERE.










Pulp Fiction - some cool fiction that doesn't quite fit the usual genres here.
Beat to a Pulp is a newish zine that "presents stories that run the gamut of genres and provide readers with a sense of pulpy adventure." Pulp style two-fisted tales. Most recently published is "Whiskey, Guns, and Sin" by Charles Gramlich. Online HERE [via Sidney Williams].



And The Online Pulps Site publishes weekly stories from the classic pulp stories including this week's "Written in Blood" by Richard L. Hobart. From Secret Agent "X" November, 1934 and "Crash Scavengers" by George Armin Shaftel. From Ten Detective Aces March, 1941

These and more are in PDF HERE.