Celebrating the Birth . . . Arthur J. Burks

Arthur J. Burks (September 13, 1898 – May 13, 1974)
      A pulp fiction writer and military veteran who served in World War II, Burks wrote numerous Science Fiction and Weird Tales type stories in the era just before "The Golden Age of Science Fiction"









Fiction
At Project Gutenberg:

• "Monsters of Moyen" Science Fiction. 1930. In Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930
     "The Western World shall be next!" was the dread ultimatum of the half-monster, half-god Moyen!"

• "Earth the Marauder" Science Fiction. 1930. Parts One, Two, and Three.
      "Out of her orbit sped the teeming Earth--a marauding planet bent on starry conquest."

• "Manape the Mighty" Science Fiction. In Astounding Stories, June, 1931.
     "High in jungle treetops swings young Bentley—his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape."

• "The Mind Master" Science Fiction. First published in Astounding Stories January and February, 1932
     "'Let’s hope the horrible nightmare is over, dearest,' whispered Ellen Estabrook to Lee Bentley as their liner came crawling up through the Narrows and the Statue of Liberty greeted the two with uplifted torch beyond Staten Island.."

• "Lords of the Stratosphere" Science Fiction. First published in Astounding Stories March 1933
     "High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by a ray whose source no telescope can find."

The Apex of Astounding Free Fiction.

A few more goodies this afternoon, including the always first rate Apex Magazine, an audio version of Astounding Stories #3, a story from Mad Scientist Journal, and part two of Atomic Julie's reading of  "The Deadly City"  E-books will resume tomorrow, Regan Wolfrom has a good list at SF Signal today.











Fiction
• At Mad Scientist Journal: "Isaac’s Butterfly" by Dan Hart. Science Fiction.
     "My son discovered a giant green moth today. Its wing patterns are asymmetrical, with five-fingered jagged appendages peeling off the edges. It has three antennae protruding from its head instead of two. I’ve never seen anything like this and believe it must be a new species."

• Now Posted Apex Magazine - Issue 52 - September 2013

• "Someone Like You" by Margaret Ronald
      "Athéne — the Athéne who was never mine — used to say that I was always slow to catch on. Even if it wasn’t true to begin with, it’s become true, and so I guess it makes sense that I didn’t understand how serious the tether break was until the consequence ran smack into me. I doubt she’d appreciate the irony."

• "Turning the Whisper" by Anaea Lay
     "Mike was there when Pavi’s kidneys failed. He was there when her liver, swollen and scarred, shut down. And her heart. He floated in her thickening, clotting blood, pressing all the conscious focus he could fit into the nanites permeating her body, killing her."

• "The Boy Who Loved Death" by Hal Duncan
     "Once far ago and long away, in a sleepy little village on the edge of nowhere, a small town turned commuter-zone city-suburb, miners’ houses swallowed into Seventies schemes of pebbledash matchboxes, Lego blocks of buildings nestled soulless on winding roads all lined with parking bays and patches of grass trimmed lobotomy neat…"

• "Body Language" by Mary Robinette Kowal
      "Saskia leaned into the darkness above the stage, only vaguely aware of the wood rail against her hips as she retied the left headstring on her marionette. On the stage below, the Snow Queen’s head eased into balance. The marionette telegraphed its stance back up the strings to the control in Saskia’s hands. She ran the Snow Queen across the set to check the repair, barely conscious of her own body on the bridge above the stage. It was almost like being immersed in an AR suit."

• "I Can Transform You: The Carmillon" by Maurice Broaddus
      "As only a few could afford cars, there were few streets in Old Town, only emergency corridors. Most people made do with either the sidewalks or the tram. If they were crazy enough to take the tram. Or crazier to walk. Mac took the underground tram to Easton, not having any patience for street preening and the ritual eyefuck of those who made him as a cop. He had never lost that cop walk, that puffed-up, straight-backed waddle of owning all he surveyed"

 Audio Fiction
• At Apex: "Someone Like You" by Margaret Ronald
      "Athéne — the Athéne who was never mine — used to say that I was always slow to catch on. Even if it wasn’t true to begin with, it’s become true, and so I guess it makes sense that I didn’t understand how serious the tether break was until the consequence ran smack into me. I doubt she’d appreciate the irony."

• At LibriVox: Astounding Stories 03, March 1930. Many readers. Science Fiction
      "This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by Ray Cummings, and stories by the prolific Capt. S. P. Meek, Will Smith and R. J. Robbins, Sewell Peaslee Wright and A. T. Locke. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd )"

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "The Deadly City - part 2 of 3" by Ivar Jorgenson, read by Julie Hoverson.
      "Waking up to find themselves in a completely vacated city, several people try to cope."

Monday Free Fiction - Part One

 More cool free items this morning, including a complete fantasy novel at Black Gate, several classic SF stories given new audio readings, continuing serialized audio and more.


 [Art from Astounding Stories #02 in Audio Fiction]










Fiction
• At Black Gate: The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. Fantasy.
      "Despite the frosty night air and the chill wind off the river, there were other guests milling around on the wide marble portico, admiring the famous pediment. Madeline tucked her hands more firmly into her muff and shivered, partly from the cold, partly from anticipation. Her coachman received his instructions and urged the horses away, and her escort Captain Reynard Morane strolled back to her." A complete novel.

• At Cosmos: "Tranquility" by O.J. Cade.Science Fiction.
     "The cryonics case reminded her of a coffin, and Mary had to bite back a comment about rising from it like the undead. Making light of it wouldn’t make her feel any less claustrophobic."

• At The WiFiles: "Dreamweaver" by David Bridge. Speculative Fiction.
     "I just had a horrible dream. I dreamt a hundred gibbering goblins were ripping me apart, pulling my intestines out through my bellybutton."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Bargain" by Henry Szabranski. 
• At Every Day Fiction: "Drawn to the Glow" by K.C. Ball. Audio. Fantasy.
• At New Myths: "Kitt the Shadow" by Rachel A. Dowling.
• At Quantum Muse: "The Future is in the Past" by Gordon Rowlinson.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Time Goblin" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Mathematics of Future Paradox" by Joe Malone. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #34" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction. Football.
     "The Galaxy Bowl is heating up! It's Quentin and the Krakens vs. Don Pine and the Jupiter Jacks. Injuries have started to take their toll on both teams, and the gridiron runs red (and purple, and black) with blood."

• At Cthulhu: "The Shadow over Innsmouth, part 2" by H. P. Lovecraft.
     "The story describes a young man's discovery of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and a frog, that dwell in Innsmouth – a coastal town that had seen better days" - Wikipedia.

• At Drabblecast: "The Eyes Have It"  by Philip K. Dick. Science Fiction.
      "It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven’t done anything about it; I can’t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I’m not the first to discover it. Maybe it’s even under control"

• At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 05 - The Land That Time Forgot"
     "The U-33 has discovered a land mass. Seemingly surrounded by impenetrable cliffs, Bradley remembers the legend of Caprona, discovered but never explored by an Italian navigator centuries before. Finding an undersea river pouring into the sea from the land mass, the U-33 submerges and travels upstream."

• At LibriVox: "Astounding Stories 02, February 1930" Science Fiction.
     "This is the second issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the finale of The Beetle Horde by Victor Rousseau, as well as stories by Harl Vincent, Charles Willard Diffin, Hugh B. Cave, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Sterner St. Paul, Anthony Pelcher and Captain S. P. Meek." Issue One Here (Contains part one of "The Beetle Horde"}

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard:  "The Amazing Mrs. Mimms!" by David C. Knight.
     "There was a muffled rushing noise and the faintly acrid smell of ion electrodes as the Time Translator deposited Mrs. Mimms back into the year 1958. Being used to such journeys, she looked calmly about with quick gray eyes, making little flicking gestures with her hands as if brushing the stray minutes and seconds from her plain brown coat."

Other Genres

• Audio at CrimeWAV: “Luck” by Johnny Shaw.
• Audio at Selected Shorts: "About Time"
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Down, on the Farm" • by Lyn Brown.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Horses" by Rebecca Schwarz

Good Freebies

Another collection of great free fiction from many sources! Be sure to check them all out and save them however you like - many won't be available forever.  And check out Regan Wolfrom's SF Signal post for good, accurate free links despite the occasionally crack inspired claims at the beginning of his posts.

 [art from "Stargazer" - linked below]




Fiction
• At Amazon:  "Speculative Fiction The Ultimate Collection" by David K Scholes [Kindle Edition].
     "A collection of some 23 speculative fiction short stories including science fiction, alternate history, science fantasy and an alternate reality story."

• At Author's Site: "Shadows on the Moon" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Urban Fantasy.
     "They say anything can happen in New York, but I don’t think most of the people who say that take it as literally as the folks in this delicate little fantasy."

• At Author's Site: "Gnome on Girl on Gnome: A Love Story – Part 1 of 2" by Regan Wolfrom.
     "Despite her best intentions, Marguerite Frunklin had never been in love before. She’d been in lust, as had all the girls back home in Ohio when they’d first found out James Franco was studying for a PhD in English, but love was something magical and mysterious to her. It was something she’d been forced to cobble together in her mind with a soulful blend of romantic passages from Twilight and Fifty Shades of Gray"

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Puppet Man" by Cate Gardner.
     "Walter's wife needed a hobby. In Walter's opinion, it was more of a want than a need, but he didn't dare argue the point. When Maeve needed something, she had to have it. After all, it was how they'd become a couple. She paced the living room, fingers working themselves into knots."

• At Nightmare: "Feminine Endings" by Neil Gaiman. Horror.
      "Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me, placed coins in the palm of my hand). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?)."

• At Paizo: "Stargazer - Chapter Three: Blood and Information"  by Chris A. Jackson. Fantasy.
     "Katapesh being Katapesh, however, this particular temple was far from the humble hermitages and shrines one might find on a distant coast or otherwise uninhabited island. The head priest wore fine robes, and looked as if it had been some time since he last slept out under the open sky. He sat at a beautiful wooden table next to the reflecting pool, and looked none too pleased at being interrupted."

• At Tor.com: "Super Bass" by Kai Ashante Wilson. Fantasy.
     "Gian returns to Sea-john from the Kingdom's wars certain that he has skills beyond killing, death and destruction. He needs to prove to himself that love is just as strong, if not stronger, than his hate. The Summer King gives him this opportunity."

Flash Fiction

• At Beware the Hairy Mango: "Newtreesean" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Audio. Weird.
• At Beware the Hairy Mango: "Computer Porn" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Audio. Weird.
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Airship Hope" by Laurel Amberdine. 
• At Flashes in the Dark: "The Beginning" by Dave Dormer.
• At Flashes in the Dark: "The Eleventh Hour" by Michael A. Kechula. Horror.
• At Nature: "An Alien Named Tim" by Michael Haynes. Science Fiction.
• At Quantum Muse: "Cold" by Harris Tobias.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Seven Year Scream" by Aldous Mercer. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Home Is Where the Heart Is" by Roger Hammons. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Clarkesworld: "The Banquet of the Lords of Night" by Liz Williams.
     "The growing rain blurs the lamps of the Isle de Saint Luce so that they look like dandelion clocks, their down blown away on the wind. The light makes de Rais squint and peer, but the parcel warms his breast, in spite of the rain. Heat seeps through him like the taste of honey."

• At LibriVox: "Time Crime" by H. Beam Piper. Science Fiction.
     "The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy--compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines!"

• At LibriVox: Astounding Stories 01, January 1930
      "In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science fiction giants like Murray Leinster and Ray Cummings and would help inspire many of the writers of the 'Golden Age of Science Fiction.'"

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Scream Queen" Horror.
      "Tiffany Romaine, an aging star of direct to video horror, finds things to not be what they seem at the horror convention 'Schlock-O-Con!'"

• At PodCastle: "Oracle Gretel" by Julia Rios. Fantasy.
     "Gretel was in love with her boss. Ms. L. Thorne spoke in short, clipped sentences, and when she smiled, which was rare, it looked like the curved edge of a wicked blade."

• At StarShipSofa: "Mitigation" by Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder. Science Fiction.
     No Description

Other Genres

• Audio at Every Photo Tells: "Obscurities – Part 03" by Mick Bordet.
• Audio at Forgotten Classics: "The Mouse in the Mountain, chapters 7-8" by Norbert Davis. Noir.
• Fiction at The New Yorker: "The Dark Arts" by Ben Marcus.

Saturday

Just a few freebies today as well as some news. The image is from the Sorcerer and the White Snake, which looks good, despite some rather weak CGI. Back tomorrow.






Audio Fiction
At Escape Pod: "Chandra’s Game" by Samantha Henderson. Science Fiction.
     "Chandra’s Game roots in the side of a barren asteroid moon like a tick.  Over the years we’ve burrowed deeper into rock and ice until poor Chandra is mostly Game.  We loop the twin wormholes, Gehenna and Tartarus, roundabout in a figure eight, ready to catch the freighters as they escape from hell’s dark maw.  We strip them of goods and drink their heat, load them up and send them into another hell.  It’s a profitable game, Chandra’s."

At LibriVox: "Tanks" by Murray Leinster.
    "Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932."  First Published in Astounding Stories of Super-Science No. 1, January, 1930

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "The Unwilling Trophy Wife" by Chad Stroup. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Things We Do for Love" by Ian Florida. Science Fiction/

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily"

• The Supreme Warrior by John Viril. Fantasy.
• Parallel Spirits by T.S. Welti. Paranormal Romance.

At Smashwords:

• "Thursday Night Game" by David Haywood Young. Weird. 11k.
• "Mingo and Marla's Excellent Apocalypse - The End Times holiday gift set" by Steven J. Nixall. SF. 49k.
• "Tales of the Airship Neverland Vol 1.5 : Fairy Dust Never Rusts" by John White. Steampunk. 38k.
• "Nightfall" by Eric Dulin. Science Fiction. 60k.

Other Genres
Audio at Radio Drama Revival: "A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
Fiction at Online Pulps: "Nursery Crime" by Joe Archibald. Crime 1945. and "Gunman's Christmas" by Caddo Cameron. Western 1946.

Science News

• "Brown Dwarf Stars Could Host Earth-Size Planets, Study Finds" Space.com
• "Space bursts provide insight to 'theory of everything'" NBCnews
• "Florida Wants to Fight Disease With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes" ABCnews.
• "Apple's downward spiral accelerates" Japan Today.
• "Unlocking a Lake’s Bacterial Secrets, Beneath 20 Meters of Ice" Science Friday (Audio)

Genre Film/TV News

•  "‘Hobbit’ exclusive clip: Gandalf warns Saruman of a powerful evil"
• "'The Hobbit' is a safe kind of danger: Peter Jackson"
• "Andy Serkis talks Gollum reprisal for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 
• "Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is Getting a Sequel"
• "Star Trek Into Darkness" (Trailer)
• "Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer: Five Questions Raised"
• "‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Ice vs. Fire"
• "‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’ Trailer: Snake Women and Ancient Chinese ‘Inception’ Horns"

Astounding, Hub, Hobbit News, and More

 Even more good free fantasy and science fiction, both classic and contemporary.  And some interesting news of likely interest to many genre readers.

[Art from Astounding Stories of Super-Science]









Fiction
In Hub 145: "Incident on Oblomov" by Eric Brown. Science Fiction.
      "I turned to Ella, my co-pilot. She was lounging in her sling, reading from her com-screen. I tried to keep my gaze from her lustrous Venezuelan eyes. For a vat-grown premier grade AI, she was disconcertingly beautiful." 

At Adventures in Fiction: Thieves' Honor ep 17: "In the Enemy's House" by Keanan Brand.
     "What were you thinking, Bosko? Talking up the merchandise like that?" Using a torch so small he appeared to squeeze fire from his fist, a bondsman welded manacles around the wrists of the prisoner lying prone in the courtyard. "The Vortuna slave run teach you nothin'?"

At Project Gutenberg: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930. Science Fiction.

"The Beetle Horde" by Victor Rousseau.
     "Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.)"
"The Cave of Horror Captain" by S. P. Meek.
     "Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again!"
"Phantoms of Reality" by Ray Cummings.
     "Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.)"
"The Stolen Mind" by M. L. Staley.
       "What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body?"
"Compensation" by C. V. Tench.
      "Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared—But in the Bottom of the Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring!"
"Tanks" by Murray Leinster. 
      "Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks, Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932."
"Invisible Death" by Anthony Pelcher. 
     "On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny, Invisible Killer."

At Strange Horizons: "The Three Immigrations" by Rose Lemberg. Speculative Poem.

Audio Fiction
At SFFAudio: "The Queen Of The Black Coast" by Robert E. Howard. Sword and Sorcery.
     "Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet cloak flowing out on the wind. Far up the street came the shout and clatter of pursuit, but the horseman did not look back"

E-Books
Via Pixel of Ink: Beyond Hades (The Prometheus Wars) by Luke Romyn. Fantasy.
At Free eBooks Daily: Spell Checked by C.G. Powell. Paranormal.
At Smashwords:

• "Little Boy Blue" by G.M. Reinfeldt. Horror. 5k.
• "The Wood Sprite's Tale" by Lachelle Redd. Fantasy. 16k.
• "Watching Over Her" by Bliss Addison. Paranormal. 15k.
• Hourglass by Karina Crandon. Paranormal. 79k.
• "Deception: The Prequel" by Stacy Claflin. YA Fantasy. 25k.
• The Evanescence Chronicles: Volume I by Alexandra Pelaez. Fantasy. 152k.
• "Arcane Genesis: Depression Lock" by Sean Roney. 3k.
• "Next Door" by Lori R. Lopez. Horror. Ghost. 5k.
• "Horrendus" by Lori R. Lopez. Horror. 3k.
• "Second Chance" by Ardy. Horror. 10k.
• "Little Boy Blue" by G.M. Reinfeldt. Weird. 5k.
• "Ghoulgirls Files Number One, Sting of the Master" by David Johanek. Horror. 11k.

Science News

• "Life abounds in Antarctic lake sealed under ice"
• "Do Aliens Use Hairspray?"
• "Chemistry That Sparked Origin of Life"
• "Jikes! NASA Backpedeling!"
• "Pluto Atmosphere Larger Than Thought, Study Shows"
• "Failure Of India's Big Rocket Project Is Symbolic Of Deep Structural Problems"
• "One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars"

 Palaeontology/History

• "Giant Eocene bird was 'gentle herbivore', study finds"
• "Nordic Witchcraft in Transition: Impotence, Hersery and Diabolism in 14th-century Bergen"

 Fantasy Film News

• "Hobbit - Production video #9: what bird is that?"
• "Latest 'Hobbit' video diary offers a sneak peek at CG goblins and trolls: Watch"
• "James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz – OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Movie Preview"
• "Watch a Video From the Thor: The Dark World Set!"
• "'Twilight,' Bond Dominate Fruitful Thanksgiving"

 Misc.
"A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction" Via Popular Science.

Sunday Goodies

A bit later than usual, but with lots of cool freebies including, the latest issue of the Lovecraft eZine, classic SF from Project Gutenberg, and good audio fiction, flash fiction. e-books, and items from other genres.



[Art from the Lovecraft eZine, linked below.]








Fiction At Project Gutenberg: "A World by the Tale" by Randall Garrett. Science Fiction. 1963.
      "This is about the best-hated author on Earth. Who was necessarily pampered and petted because of his crime against humanity...."

Now Posted:  The Lovecraft eZine #19

"A Thousand Smokes" by W.H. Pugmire.
      "It towered, the twisted entity, above the ground-mist that enveloped me as I swept into that hollow of old oaks. I confess that it felt strange, knowing once again the uncanny sensations that I had experienced as a youngster"
"The Strange Case ofCrazy Joe Gallo" by Jeffrey Thomas.
       "Gallo first learned of the infamous, ancient book while serving a ten year sentence for extortion. Gallo was widely read – in prison he devoured the writings of Sartre, Machiavelli, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Camus – and so it was not unnatural for him to become intrigued by talk of this legendary tome."
"In the House of the Hummingbirds" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
       "If you think about it, it makes sense. After all, Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of War and patron of the city of Tenochtitlan, was the Hummingbird of the Left. The souls of dead warriors return to our world in the shape of hummingbirds. Why shouldn’t war be a flower?"
"The Treatment Room" by Kevin Crisp.
       "I have not long been a vagrant, nor will I be much longer.  This much has been determined.  I continue to run and hide, but it is merely animal instinct at work.  The man in me knows it to be futile.  My date approaches."
"Obsidian Capra Aegagrus" by Christopher Slatsky.
       "It was early afternoon- how much heroin had I mainlined already? Two grams? I could stand a lot more. I’d anticipated and funded this drug acquisition over a period of months by selling several boxes of my beloved vinyl collection"
"The Dig" by Monica Valentinelli.
        "The Voice is soft, plain, urgent. It speaks to me through shadows and sunbeams, reflections and dreams. The words creep in between my waking thoughts, insisting that I dig. I try to tell It to stop, but It won’t listen."
"Amtopians" by Logan Davis.         "I’m not going to make this sound like this is like some fairy tale or mythical tale or something like that.  It’s just a night I will never forget."

At Project Gutenberg: "Astounding Stories, March, 1931" Science Fiction.

"When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin
      "It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain."
"Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings.
       "The Tale of a Golden Atom—an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete Novelette.)"
"Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent.
       "One after Another the Invisible Robots Escape Shelton's Control—and Their Trail Leads Straight to the Gangster Chief Cadorna." 
"Phalanxes of Atlans" by F. V. W. Mason.
        "Never Did an Aviator Ride a More Amazing Sky-Steed Than Alden on His Desperate Dash to the Great Jarmuthian Ziggurat. (Conclusion of a Two-Part Novel.)"
"The Meteor Girl" by Jack Williamson.
        "Through the Complicated Space-Time of the Fourth Dimension Goes Charlie King in an Attempt to Rescue the Meteor Girl."

Flash Fiction

• At Silverblade: "Midnight in the Garden of Light" by Elizabeth Hopkinson. Fantasy.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Don’t Look" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Loneliness of Time Travel" by George R. Shirer. Science Fiction.
• At Weirdyear: "Benny" by Tony Rauch. Weird.

E-Books
At Amazon: Speculative Fiction The Ultimate Collection [Kindle Edition] by David K Scholes.

Via Pixel of Ink:

• Triangle: False Mirror by Lea-Ellen Borg. Science Fiction.
• Fallen, A New Draycott Abbey Series by Christina Skye. Fantasy.
• Opal Fire by Barbra Annino. Paranormal.
• A Gift of Ghosts by Sarah Wynde. Paranormal.

At Free eBooks Daily:

• Claus: Legend of the Fat Man by Tony Bertauski. Science Fiction
• Valley Of The Shadows: Kingdom Of Hillael by Amre Cortadino. Fantasy.
• Daisy Cooper and the Sisters of the Black Night by Robert Dee. YA Adventure.
• Aisle 13 by Zachary Stone. Horror. Zombies.
• Contagious by Emily Goodwin. Horror.
• Ruby Blue by Julie Cassar. YA Fantasy.
• Poet's Blood by Marie Symeou, Fantasy.
• Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural by Paula Cappa. Horror. Paranormal.
• Upon This World of Stone by James A. Hillebrecht. Fantasy.
• Heart of the Hunter by Lara Adrian. Paranormal Romance.
• Troll Or Derby by Red Tash.  YA Dark Fantasy.
• Traphis: A Wizard's Tale by James D. Maxon
• Dark Passage by Griffin Hayes. Horror.
• The Zul Enigma by J M Leitch. Science Fiction.
• You Are Not a Planet and Other Stories by Sean Manseau. Speculative Fiction.
• Godmachine by Jack Thompson. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up: "Episode #341" Science Fiction.
      Kevin Pickett’s “Bedtime Story” which ask, what do you think would be society’s reaction to a robot that become sentient? and part 3 of Poul Anderson’s “Call me Joe”

At Escape Pod: "A Querulous Flute of Bone" by Cat Rambo.  Science Fiction.
       "Aaben was such a collector. S/he was one of the geniod, whose gender varies according to mood, location, and other private considerations, and who are known, in the face of great trauma, to forget who they are and become entirely different personalities, their old selves never to be resumed or spoken of."

At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 05 - The Return of Tarzan" Adventure.
     "Tarzan of the Apes, now in Paris, has become a confidante of the Countess Olga De Code."

At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 06 - The Return of Tarzan" Adventure.
      "Tarzan has paid a visit to the evil Nicholas Rokoff. After choking the villain until his face turns black, the nefarious Rokoff has given Tarzan a signed confession of his part in the trumped-up scandal involving Olga De Coude."

At The Lovecraft eZine: Issue #19. Horror
       All stories listed in fiction have audio versions.

At SFFAudio: Two versions of Algernon Blackwood’s "The Man Who Found Out" Horror.
      "And the young doctor, thanking the gods of science that his leader's aberrations were of so harmless a character, went home strong in the certitude of his knowledge of externals, proud that he was able to refer his visions to self-suggestion, and wondering complaisantly whether in his old age he might not after all suffer himself from visitations of the very kind that afflicted his respected chief."

Other Genres

• Audio at Classic Tales Podcast: "The Chimes, Part 1 of 4" by Charles Dickens
• Audio at Tales of Old: "A Passing Pleasing Toungue" by Kara Race-Moore. Historical Fiction. England 1528.
• Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts - "Remembering Isaiah Sheffer"   T.C. Boyle’s Lassie parody “Heart of a Champion,” two hilarious tales by Ian Frazier, “Dating Your Mom” and “Lamentations of the Father,” and Allan Gurganus’ mystical “It Had Wings.”
• Fiction at Online Pulps:  "Murdered Twice" by Norman A. Daniels. Crime 1935. and "Man of the Abyss" by Hapsburg Liebe. Western 1948.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Knowledge" by Ken Elkes.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Big Game" by Greg Chase.
• OTR at Relic Radio: "The Headstrong Corpse"  - CBS Radio Mystery Theater. 1974.

Fiction at The Western Online:

• "Fool's Gold" by D. M. Harrison.
• "Four Bullets to Leadville" by Benedict J. Jones
• "The Cold Trail" by Jerry D. White