Black Crusade, Audio Fiction, and More.

Lots More :-)

E-Fiction
At Wizards of the Coast: Black Crusade by Ari Marmell.

"They moved through a world of endless mist, and the mist moved around them in turn. It cradled them like a mother guarding an errant child—or a cyst forming defensively around an intruding splinter.

The vardos of Clan Hanza, late of Barovia, originally of gods-alone-knew-where, appeared single-file from the sea of white. Gypsies, they were called by some; Vistani by others, who pretended to know them. They trod the Mists via paths invisible to other mortals, heard the deep secrets of the world whispered on the winds, and Saw truths to which others re-mained blind."

In free PDF download HERE.



At Manybooks: "In the Orbit of Saturn" by Roman Frederick Starzl, first published Astounding Stories October 1931.

Disguised as a voluntary prisoner on a pirate space ship, an I. F. P. man penetrates the mystery of the dreaded "Solar Scourge."

In E-Book downloads HERE.





At Book View Cafe: "Slick" by Sylvia Kelso.

"'Slick. was published in Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature. It’s set in the Australian bush, and it may be SF, or even horror. Or perhaps it’s an elegy. You decide."

Online HERE.



At MindFlights: " A Plague of Chicken" by Rabia Gale.

"The newly promoted Magician Mandaleb is called upon to stop a plague of chicken."

Online HERE.


Audio Fiction
At Escape Pod: Episode 202: "Will You Be an Astronaut?" by Greg van Eekhout, read by Christiana Ellis.

"The biggest rocket ever was the Saturn V. On the launch pad it was taller than a 30-story building. Today’s rockets are smaller and lighter. Today’s rockets can be launched more than once. They have wings and can come back to earth and land like airplanes."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.




At Pseudopod: "Infestation" by Matthew Piskin, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy.

The head of the flower is furry and yellow with large red and black petals, wavy and erect, just the way a kid would draw them. ... As she carries the flower into the house the petals give the illusion of spinning, like little wheels turning inside larger ones.

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



At Maria Lectrix: Parts 4-6 of "The Beetle Horde" by Victor Rousseau, read by Maureen O' Brien.
"find out what a scientist can get up to, all alone underground with a ravening horde of giant beetles."

Part four is HERE, five is HERE, six is HERE.






At The Classic Tales Podcast: Episode 110, "The Country of the Blind" Part 2 of 2, by H.G. Wells, read by B. J. Harrison.
"In the Country of Blind Men, the one-eyed man is king. Nunez acquires his kingdom of sight, such as it is, and our story is concluded."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



At The Dunesteef: "All The Rage" by David Walton.

"Diane and Ray are art lovers, always after the next big thing, something amazing, something shocking, something unique. They find it in Willie, a boy who is…normal. For, in a world where everyone is a special and uniquely engineered snowflake, what exactly, is special and unique anymore?"

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Video
At The Internet Archive: Men into Space - Episode 08 - "Asteroid" (1959).

"Skyra, a three-mile asteroid, has unexpectedly settled into Earth orbit at 3,000 miles altitude, and McCauley leads a mission to investigate the possibility of turning it into a space station"

In ogg and MPEG4 download HERE.



Comic Books
At The Horrors of It All: A double shot of worm horror. "The Night Crawlers" from Menace #10 (1954) and "The Worm Turns" from Adventures into Weird Worlds #30.


Both online HERE.





And at Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Several classic sci-fi comics drawn by Murphy Anderson.



Online HERE.







Other Coolness
(Article) At Mt Star Trek Scrapbook: "ST:TMP Prop article from Starlog"
(Audio-Adventure) At LibriVox: "Adrift on an Ice-Pan" by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, read by Sean Michael Hogan.
(Audio-Pulp) At Well Told Tales: "Dark Star of Death" by Robert Leslie Bellem, read by John Wooley.
(Flash) At MicroHorror: "Vampyre!" by Paul Phillips.
(Flash) At MicroHorror: "The Trouble With Angels" by George Kuato.
(Flash) At Flashes in the Dark: "A Great Movie Star" by Michael A. Kechula.
(Flash) At 365 tomorrows: "Contraband" by Ian Rennie.
(Flash) At Everyday Weirdness: "Demon Switch" by Walter Giersbach
(Flash) At Every Day Fiction: "Becoming" by A P Charman.
(Gaming Art) At Greywulf’s Lair: "When Bullywugs Attack"
(OTR) At Relic Radio: "Mystery Of The Southern Star" on The Haunting Hour.
(OTR) At Boxcars 711: Dark Fantasy - "Death Is A Savage Diety" (01-30-42)
(Pulp Fiction) At Big Pulp: "Perfect Record" by Fleur Bradley
(Poem) At Poetry Lovers Page: "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe.