More Great Free Entertainment

Once again I am amazed at all the good, free stuff out there. My hat's off to all the posters, writers, readers, editors, etc.!

E-Fiction
Cool fiction from Afterburn SF,

"Milk-Toothed" By C. L. Rossman.
“Killing one beast fills two gamebags,” he told them before he sent them out. “Now go, and remember Hunt Law!”

and "Family Tree" by Michelle Scott.
"Curtis didn’t know what he had done to piss off the higher power. Every day he assured himself that things would not get worse, and yet every day they did."


At Fantasy Magazine, "Garkain" by Samantha Henderson.

"At least it looked like good timber, but everything was deceiving in this hellhole he’d made his home. Winter was dry and hot while summer was wet and gave lie to the promise of rich farms ringing Victoria Settlement like a ring of pearls;"

Online HERE.



The Latest issue of Strange Horizons is out with "Lily Glass" by Veronica Schanoes.

"The girl is gone from the castle and her stepmother wanders the corridors. Here is another way of saying the same thing: the girl wanders the corridors, but her stepdaughter is nowhere to be found."

and more HERE.



Hub has its 84th issue with "My Dad’s Idea" by Llinos Cathryn Thomas.
"I’m not allowed to go to school with the other kids. Mum says it’s for the best. She says that the big kids could hurt me. They might not mean to, but they would. And anyway they would definitely make fun of me whatever."

In PDF and Mobi HERE.




Audio Fiction
Beam Me Up has its 154th episode with

"The Colors Twelve" by Shaun Saunders which "asks the question, what if all the conspiracies are true?!"

"Best Laid Plans" by Crystalwizard "a fast paced short where nothing goes right for our protagonist, or is it, making the best of a bad situation. You judge."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.




The Classic Tales Podcast has the conclusion of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by B. J. Harrison.

"The facts of the horrible murders are sifted, and reality is shaken by the truths unearthed by C. Auguste Dupin."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


At Maria Lectrix, the long awaited chapter 10 of The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell, Jr., read by Maureen O'Brien.

"In this chapter, the alien commander, Gresth Gkae, has a lot of thinking to do."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.






Escape Pod has its 196th episode with "Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal, read by Stephen Eley.

"Someone banged on the window of his pen. Sly jumped and then screamed as the vase collapsed under its own weight. He spun and hurled it at the picture window like feces. The clay spattered against the Plexiglas, sliding down the window."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



Pseudopod has its 139th episode with "Old Ways" by Dan Dworkin, read by Jenna Sharpe.

The man in the doorway was backlit by the low hanging sun, and when he told her about Ray it didn’t seem real. “Dead?” “Yes ma’am, I’m afraid so.” Fatima gripped the front of her blouse and twisted. She steadied herself against the door jam, and when she spoke it was a whisper, “Imkonsiz…”

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


At LibriVox, Edmond Hamilton's "The Stars, My Brothers" read by Gregg Margarite. 83 minutes.
"'The Stars, My Brothers' gives us a re-animated astronaut plucked from a century in the past and presented with an alien world where the line between humans and animals is blurred."

In ogg and MP3 download HERE [via SFF Audio]







And also at LibriVox, Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 014 featuring

"Beyond Pandora" by Robert J. Martine, read by James Christopher.
"Blessed Are the Meek" by G.C. Edmondson, read by Alex Clarke.
"I Like Martian Music" by Charles E. Fritch, read by Gregg Margarite.
"It’s a Small Solar System" by Allan Howard, read by Gregg Margarite.
"Operation R.S.V.P." by H. Beam Piper, read by William Haseltine.
"Pandemic" by J.F. Bone, read by Bellona Times.
"The Professional Approach" by Charles Leonard Harness and Theodore Lockhard Thomas, read by Joelle Peebles.
"Test Rocket!" by Jack Douglas, read by Alex Clarke.
"Vanishing Point" by C.C. Beck, read by Dan Gurzynski.
and "The Worshippers" by Damon Knight, read by Gregg Margarite.

All in ogg and MP3 downloads HERE.




Comic Books
At The Horrors of It All, another cat themed horror tale "Master of the Cats!" from Eerie #5. Online HERE.

and an unusually light hearted tale (for THOIA) "The Crawling Things!" from Man Comics #28. Online HERE.






Hairy Green Eyeball has "It" by Theodore Sturgeon adapted in Supernatural Thrillers #1.

Online HERE.





At Magic Carpet Burn, an odd monster story "The Horror called Spring-Heel Jack" from Ripley's Believe It or Not!.


Online HERE.








Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a cool little sf story "The Inheritors" drawn by Alex Nino.

Online HERE.






Diversions of the Groovy Kind has part two of the comic cook adaptation of the SF classic Day of the Triffids available online HERE.

And the first issue of the fantasy comic book The Warlord HERE.