Good Free Genre Audio Fiction

Great free audio fiction today. Tomorrow (hopefully), free fiction and the first of two reviews.


Audio Books
PodCastle has two more fantasy audiostories,

Episode 45, "The Annals of Eelin-Ok" by Jeffrey Ford, read by Rajan Khanna.

"To understand the Twilmish, though, is to understand that in a mere moment, all can be saved or lost, an ingenious idea can be born, a kingdom can fall, love can grow, and life can discover its meaning."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.

And Miniature #28, "Elf Aware" by K. Tempest Bradford, read by Marguerite Croft.

“I am an elf,” you say to yourself. “I am an elf, I am an elf, I am an elf…”

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.

StarShipSofa has the 71st episode of Aural Delights featuring.

Poetry: "Marble People" by Bruce Boston.
Fact: English Assassin on Books.
Fact: "Film Talk" by Rod Barnett.
Poetry: "Chess People" by Bruce Boston.
Intro to Main Fiction: Sheila Williams/Asimov’s
Main Fiction : "Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons" by Gord Sellar.
Outro To Main Fiction: Gord Sellar.
Fact: Cover Art by Skeet.
Poetry: "Gargoyle People" by Bruce Boston.

Narrators: JJ Campanella Diane Severson

Available in MP3 download HERE.


Escape Pod has its 192nd episode with "Sumo21" by Daniel Braum, read by Stephen Eley.

“Oh great Emperor,” the gyoji said, continuing the ritual. “These two honorable warriors can not agree who will step aside, and who will join the sacred battle to return you to us. We would gladly send all our sons, but the Council of Infinite Japans says there may be only twenty-one. So now they must fight to decide.”

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Pseudopod has up its 135th episode of audio horror with "The Duel" by Michael James McFarland, read by Kris Johnson.

“You heard me, Vanderbilt. D-U-E-L. Duel.” “You mean like with pistols… ten paces, turn and fire? That kind of duel?"

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


More free audiobooks from LibriVox

Jungle Tales of Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Ralph Snelson.
"A collection of twelve loosely-connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan."

In Ogg and MP3 downloads HERE.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 002 by many authors and readers.

"A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stink of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder."
In Ogg and MP3 downloads HERE.




Radio Tales of the Strange and Fantastic is now playing a classic Dimension X episode "The Last Objective"

"After nuclear devastation and fallout has rendered the Earth's surface virtually uninhabitable, Man continues to pursue war underground in tunneling 'warships'." - OTR Plotspot.

In MP3 download HERE.





Beam Me Up achieves an impressive milestone today with its 150th podcast. This episode features "Last Wizard" by Shaun A. Saunders and part one of "Skull Valley" by Michael Cassutt, both read by Paul Cole.


Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.







Dunesteef has its 88th episode with "Halloween In July" by Kevin Anderson.

"Alex and his wife Sara have moved away from New York and are spending their first night in their new home. A warm July night. But then, why are there children trick-or-treating at their front door. They are children, right?"

In Mp3 download HERE.


The Classic Tales Podcast has a trio of short tales "The Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant "reveals how suspicion can overwhelm to the point of self-destruction," "A Vine on a House" by Ambrose Bierce "tells of a vine-ridden haunted house" and "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells of "a man who commits a despicable murder, then has the misfortune of entertaining an unexpected visitor." All read by B. J. Harrison.

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


And The Cthulhu Blog has "Pickman's Model" by H. P. Lovecraft. A story of a painter whose work is too grotesque and vivid for his peers.


Available in MP3 download HERE.